J&K: 3 terrorists killed, 4 security personnel injured in encounter at Pantha Chowk in Srinagar

Three terrorists were killed, while three policemen and a CRPF jawan were injured in an encounter that took place on the intervening night of Thursday and Friday at Gomandar Mohalla in Pantha Chowk area of ​​Jammu and Kashmir’s Srinagar district.

“Three unidentified terrorists killed. Incriminating material including arms and ammunition recovered. Search is on,” J&K Police tweeted quoting Kashmir Inspector General of Police Vijay Kumar.

According to the Jammu and Kashmir Police, a senior police officer had gone to pick up a suspect. As the police team tried to enter the house, there was heavy firing from inside, in which two policemen were injured.

“In the initial firing, three police personnel and a CRPF jawan were injured and later taken to a hospital. Three terrorists were killed,” the police said.

The search operation was going on till the filing of this report.

A joint team of police and security forces cordoned off the area and started a search operation on the basis of specific information about the presence of terrorists, exchange of fire broke out between the terrorists and the security forces.

As the security forces reached the spot where the terrorists were hiding, they came under heavy fire which triggered an encounter.

The Srinagar encounter comes hours after six terrorists, including two Pakistanis, were killed by security forces in two separate encounters in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag and Kulgam districts.

Jammu and Kashmir IGP Vijay Kumar termed the killing of six terrorists as a “great success” in a joint press conference with Indian Army’s 15 Corps Commander Lt Gen DP Pandey.

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