Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Aug 18: Three terrorists were killed near Line of Control in Tangdhar sector, Kupwara district on Saturday evening.
The details of the encounter are still emerging.
Earlier in the day, Pakistani troops violated the ceasefire along the LoC in Uri sector with unprovoked shelling this evening. There was no loss of life, police said.
"Some mortar shells were fired by Pakistani forces on the Thajal-Chranda area of Uri (in north Kashmir's Baramulla district)," Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Baramulla, Imtiyaz Hussain said.
One of the shells hit a washroom adjacent to a house in Thajal and damaged it, he said.
On August 17, one person was killed and three were injured after terrorists attacked on a police installation with grenades in Awantipora area of Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district, police said.
They lobbed a grenade towards the main gate of the district police office which missed the intended target and exploded by the road, a police official said.
Four civilians were injured in the grenade blast, the official said, adding that one of the injured later succumbed to injuries at a hospital. |
