Militant and two security personnel killed in south Kashmir encounter
Srinagar, Apr 24 (IBNS): In an ongoing encounter in Tral forests in south Kashmir, two security personnel and a militant have been killed till last reports came in on Tuesday.
The reports said intense gun battle started early Tuesday morning, the first after the army had to abandon its operations in Khudwani, Kulgam early this month.
The policeman killed in the encounter has been identified as Latif Gojri. Injured in the encounter, he succumbed to his injuries.
On April 1, as many as 13 militants, four civilians and three soldiers were killed and more than 70 protesters injured in three separate gunfights in south Kashmir.
On April 11, four civilians and a soldier were killed in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district even as two militants escaped as protesters threw stones at security personnel.
(Reporting by Saleem Iqbal Qadri)
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