S Tahir-ul Haq
Early Times Report
KUPWARA, June 29: An unidentified militant was killed on Tuesday late evening in a gunfight with security forces in Warnou forests of Lolab area in Kupwara district.
A senior army official said that, "acting on specific information about the presence of militants near the forest area at Lolpora in Lolab area, a joint team of police and army cordoned off the area and launched a search operation on Tuesday late evening.
As the forces were conducting the search operation, the militants fired upon them, leading to an encounter, the official told Early Times.
The official said that so far one unidentified militant has been killed in an ongoing encounter that broke out yesterday evening, adding the search operation is going on till the last reports came in.
"One AK-47 rifle has been recovered from his procession, adding quickly that identification of the killed militant was not immediately known.
Pertinently on Tuesday afternoon a local divisional commander of the Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) militant outfit was killed in an encounter between holed up militants and security forces here in Kupwara district.
A senior police official said that, one militant was killed on Tuesday afternoon in an encounter between security forces and holed up militants in Nagri area of this district.
Pertinently on June 24, gunfight had raged in Waterkhani forests of Drugmulla area of the district, in which three militants were killed by the security forces. |
