Three militants were killed in two separate gunfights in the Valley on Thursday.
While two militants were killed in south Kashmir, the third was killed in a brief shootout in Srinagar. Two Army personnel were also injured in the south Kashmir gunfight.
On Thursday, a joint team of the J&K Police, Army and paramilitary forces cordoned off Naina Bataora village in south Kashmir’s Pulwama after receiving inputs about the presence of militants in the village.
As the joint team of forces zeroed in on the target, the hiding militants opened fire and tried to break the security cordon. The joint team of forces retaliated the fire, leading to an encounter.
The police said two militants were killed and two Army personnel injured in the gunfight that lasted several hours. “As the presence of terrorists holed up in a separate structure near a local mosque got ascertained, they were given ample opportunities to surrender and repeated appeals were made to them. Instead, they fired indiscriminately at the joint search party, leading to an encounter. Keeping in view the sanctity of the mosque, the joint team exercised maximum restraint to ensure no damage to it and two Army personnel sustained splinter injuries during the encounter,” the police said.
In the ensuing encounter, two terrorists affiliated to terror outfit LeT were killed and their bodies were recovered from the encounter site,” they added.
