Two Army personnel were killed and six others, including two civilians, were injured in an encounter between terrorists and security forces in a remote forest area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Saturday.
According to the officials, the terrorists, hiding in the forest, opened indiscriminate fire upon noticing the search parties, leading to an intense gun battle.
#WATCH | J&K: An encounter has started at the Ahlan Gagarmandu area of District Anantnag.(Visuals deferred by unspecified time) pic.twitter.com/szTLY7geEM
— ANI (@ANI) August 10, 2024
The Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) police said that the encounter between terrorists and security forces began in the Ahlan area of Kokernag in Anantnag district.
“#Encounter has started at Ahlan Gagarmandu area of District #Anantnag. Police and Security forces are on the job. Further details shall follow,” the police informed in a social media post on X.
#Encounter has started at Ahlan Gagarmandu area of District #Anantnag. Police and Security forces are on the job. Further details shall follow.@JmuKmrPolice— Kashmir Zone Police (@KashmirPolice) August 10, 2024
The Army’s Srinagar-based Chinar Corps, in a post on X, said, “Based on specific intelligence input, a joint operation was launched by the Indian Army, @JmuKmrPolice & @crpf_srinagar today in general area Kokernag, Anantnag. Contact was established and a firefight ensued.”
Giving details of the current operation, a Srinagar-based defence spokesperson said that on August 5, it was confirmed through human and electronic means that terrorists responsible for atrocities in the Doda region in July have sneaked across the Kishtwar range into the Kapran-Garol area in south Kashmir.
“The Rashtriya Rifles and the Jammu and Kashmir Police have relentlessly tracked these terrorists and precise operations were launched on the night of August 9 and 10 in the mountains in the east of Kapran where these terrorists were reportedly holed up.
“Suspicious movement was observed at around 2 pm on August 10. Challenging (by security forces) was immediately responded by indiscriminate, desperate and reckless firing from terrorists in which two Army personnel and two civilians, in the vicinity were injured,” the spokesperson said.
He said the terror antecedents of the injured civilians are being ascertained.
(With inputs from agencies)
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