JK: Gunfire exchange between militants and security forces in Pulwama
News | April 30, 2018 11:15 ISTJK: Gunfire exchange between militants and security forces in Pulwama
JK: Gunfire exchange between militants and security forces in Pulwama
J&K Police said that one of the four militants killed in Tuesday's gunfight in the Tral forest area was a JeM commander.
The terrorists opened indiscriminate firing at the vehicle. The leader was rushed to a local hospital where he succumbed to his injuries. The condition of the other two injured is stated to be serious.
Immediately after hearing gunshots, the security forces launched an anti-militancy operation in the area.
Police said militants fired from close range at SPO Muhammad Ashraf in Muran Chowk, injuring him critically.
Sofi was working as salesman at an electronics shop here, the official said. The body was taken to the sub-district hospital at Pampore for autopsy and initial reports suggested that Sofi was tortured, he added.
The area has been cordoned off and a search operation is underway, a police official said.
Terrorists attacked a post manned by a joint team of Jammu and Kashmir Police and CRPF at around 11 pm on Thursday night. Heavy gunfight was reported from the area.
"A grenade exploded near Tehsil office in Pulwama resulting in minor injuries to four policemen," a police officer said.
The attack comes two days after three militants were gunned down in Pulwama in an encounter with CRPF and Army. Five Indian jawans lost their life in the encounter.
The Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) claimed responsibility for the daring attack on the 185 Battalion of the Central Reserve Police Force.
Sheikh, a resident of Aurangabad in Maharashtra, was on the radar of central intelligence agencies for quite sometime before he was nabbed with the help of Uttar Pradesh police in the last week of November.
Two separate gunfights erupted this morning between security forces and militants in Kulgam and Pulwama districts of Jammu and Kashmir.
Army has said that around 80 militants have been killed in south Kashmir in the past six months and around 115 ultras are still active in the region, of whom over a dozen were foreign terrorists.
Two civilians were killed after militants on Thursday attacked a police patrol party, part of the cavalcade of Jammu and Kashmir's senior minister Naeem Akhtar, near the bust stand in the Tral area of Pulwama district
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