5 terrorists had been killed in an encounter with safety forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kulgam district on Thursday, information company PTI reported, citing officers.
Two safety forces personnel sustained accidents within the operation, the officers mentioned.
The gunfight started after safety forces launched a cordon and search operation at Kadder within the Behibagh space of the district on Wednesday evening following details about the presence of suspected terrorists there.
Nevertheless, the search operation changed into an encounter because the terrorists opened fireplace on the safety forces, who retaliated.
“On 19 December 24, primarily based on particular intelligence enter concerning presence of terrorists, a Joint Operation launched by Indian Military & Jammu Kashmir Police at Kader, Kulgam. Suspicious exercise was noticed by vigilant troops and on being challenged, terrorists opened indiscriminate and heavy quantity of fireplace. Personal troops successfully retaliated,” the Indian Military’s Chinar Corps mentioned in a put up on X.
Earlier this month, a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist allegedly concerned in a lethal assault at a tunnel building web site in central Kashmir’s Gagangeer in October was killed in a gunfight with safety forces in a forest space of Srinagar.
Seven unarmed individuals, labourers and staffers of a contractor engaged on a tunnel for the strategic Srinagar-Leh nationwide freeway, had been killed when terrorists opened indiscriminate fireplace at Gagangeer in Gund space quickly after the employees returned to the campsite within the night.
The assault was the deadliest on civilians in Jammu and Kashmir because the June 9 incident in Reasi when 9 pilgrims had been killed after the bus they had been in plunged right into a valley when it got here below gunfire from terrorists.
On November 23, Baramulla Police, in a joint operation with safety forces, busted a terror hideout within the Kunzer space of Baramulla district.
On November 9, primarily based on particular intelligence concerning the presence of terrorists, a joint Operation was launched by the Military and JK Police within the normal space of Rajpura, Sopore, Baramulla.
