November 23, 2024 17:04 (IST)
Follow us:
facebook-white sharing button
twitter-white sharing button
instagram-white sharing button
youtube-white sharing button
Mahayuti routs MVA in Maharashtra, INDIA retains Jharkhand; Priyanka's triumphant poll debut | How can Mahayuti win over 200 seats? Sanjay Raut cries foul over Maharashtra mandate | 'Third World War has begun:' Ex-Ukraine military commander-in-chief Valery Zaluzhny | UK-India Free Trade Agreement negotiations to resume in early 2024 | UK can arrest Benjamin Netanyahu if he visits country based on ICC warrant
One more terrorist killed in encounter as firing resumes in J & k's Poonch

One more terrorist killed in encounter as firing resumes in J & k's Poonch

| | 12 Sep 2016, 02:35 pm
Poonch, Sept 12 (IBNS) : One more terrorist was gunned down in encounter in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch on Monday as firing resumed a day after three ultras and a policeman were killed in a day-long gun battle, reports said.

The total number of terrorists killed is four in Poonch and eight in the state over the past two days.

Reports said the encounter in Poonch is still underway.

Altogether seven terrorists were killed in the state on Sunday  in four separate encounters, including the one near the Line of Control in Nowgam sector in north Kashmir, where the Army  gunned down four,  believed to be Pakistanis.

Encounters had taken place also in Tangdhar and Gurez sectors, where forces foiled infiltration attempt.

The three terrorists killed in Poonch  had been holed up inside an under-construction government building close to an army camp.

One policeman also died and another was injured.

An elderly couple who had been taken hostage were  rescued after the day-long operation.

In the Nowgam Sector four AK-47 rifles and a large cache of ammunition were recovered at the end of the encounter that started as the Army engaged in a gun battle heavily armed terrorists trying to infiltrate from across the border.

During joint raids at Pulwama's Kairmabaf village, 25 people were injured in clashes with security forces.

In the evening, Home Minister Rajnath Singh chaired a high-level meeting with top officials, including National Securit Advisor Ajit Doal to review the situation in J & K which has witnessed the death of nearly 80 persons over a period of two months.

Encounters had taken place also in Tangdhar and Gurez sectors, where forces foiled infiltration attempt.

 

 

Support Our Journalism

We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism

IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.

Support objective journalism for a small contribution.