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| Three JeM terrorists killed in encounter with forces in Pulwama | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, June 19: Three top Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorists, including its operational commander, were killed in an encounter with security forces in Tral in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, police said.
One CRPF jawan has been injured and taken to 92 Base Hospital.
The encounter broke out after security forces launched a cordon-and-search operation in the area following specific intelligence inputs, a police official said.
Security forces comprising the army's counter-insurgency Rashtriya Rifles, Central Reserve Police Force and the Special Operations Group of the state police launched a cordon and search operation in Tral.
The search-and-eliminate operations were re-initiated by the Indian forces after the Centre called an end to the unprecedented Ramzan ceasefire. In the first counter-terror operation launched by the forces on Monday, two militants were killed in Panar forest area of Bandipora.
Massive clashes broke out in the area around the encounter as locals started throwing stones at the security forces engaged in the encounter. Reinforcements from the police were sent to control the situation on the outer periphery.
"We have tightened the cordon to ensure that militants don't escape from the area," an anonymous official told.
The 42 Rashtriya Rifles of the Indian Army conducted the search operation along with a team of Jammu and Kashmir Police and a section of the Central Reserve Police Force.
On 16 June, two civilians were killed in separate incidents of clashes with security forces in South Kashmir in two days as stone pelters intensified their agitation, the police said.
In the first incident, which took place on 15 June, in Pulwama district's Nowpora area, a youth was killed and a woman injured allegedly in firing by Indian Army personnel.
In the second incident, a grenade blast killed one civilian in Anantnag on 16 June while there were many incidents of violent clashes between protestors and police on the occasion of Eid.
Earlier in June, at least 23 people, including eight security personnel, were injured on 4 June in two grenade attacks by militants in Pulwama and Shopian districts of Kashmir.
Earlier, Director General of Police (DGP) SP Vaid wrote on Twitter, "Encounter going on at Hyena Tral, 3 (three) important JEM Terrorists trapped.. |
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