Kashmir: Army jawan, policeman injured in fresh encounter today
Srinagar, May 6 (IBNS): An encounter broke out between security forces and terrorists in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday morning leaving a policeman and an army jawan injured.
According to reports, two to three terrorists are believed to be trapped at the encounter site.
This comes a day after altogether seven people, including three militants, were killed in separate incidents in a deadly string of violence in Kashmir on Saturday.
According to reports, three militants, suspected to be members of the Pakistani terror outfit Lashker-e-Taiba, were gunned down on Saturday during an hours-long encounter, while a civilian died reportedly in a road accident during a clash that erupted after a mob of local people pelterd the forces with stones to prevent them from carrying on with the operation.
Counterinsurgency police and paramilitary soldiers had raided a cluster of homes in Chattabal, a neighbourhood area of Srinagar after getting a tip that militants were hiding there.
Troops had asked the trapped militants to surrender but they had started firing leading to a gunbattle.
Officials said there were three militants, holed up in a house, who kept fighting the forces. The firefight continued for nearly five hours and ended with the killing of three militants.
A CRPF jawan was also injured in the shootout.
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