SRINAGAR: A militant and a soldier were killed in a gunfight that erupted on Tuesday morning in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district, while a militant hideout was busted in Pulwama district following another encounter.
Deputy inspector general of police SP Pani said the gunfight in Nowbug Kund area of Kulgam ended with the deaths of a soldier and a militant. A policeman was injured but stable.
The gunfight erupted after police, army’s Rashtriya Rifles and CRPF launched a cordon and search operation (CASO) in the area. “The firing stopped in Kulgam in the morning itself but we are still searching the area,” Pani said late in the evening.
Pani said the identity of the slain militant was being ascertained. “He seems to be a Hizbul Mujahideen operative but we can confirm his identity once his family identifies the body,” he said, suggesting that the militant was a local. Police control room, Kulgam, informed that the soldier belonged to 10 Sikh-LI regiment.
Meanwhile, the encounter between security forces and militants which started in Laan Tral area of Pulwama ended with the busting of a militant hideout.
“A huge hideout of Jaish-e-Mohammad outfit was busted in Tral,” Pani said.
The encounters in south Kashmir came after two local Hizbul militants were killed when they attacked a police checkpoint in Handwara on Monday night.
Body of jawan killed in mine blast reaches Mandi today
BODY TO BE BROUGHT TO PATHANKOT FROM IMPHAL BY AIR AND THEN TAKEN TO PANDOH IN ARMY VEHICLE; WILL BE CREMATED WITH STATE HONOURS
MANDI : The body of Assam Riffles jawan Inder Singh from the Pandoh area of Mandi district, who was killed in a landmine blast in Manipur on Monday, will reach home on Wednesday.
A pall of gloom descended on the town as the news of Inder’s death reached his family on Tuesday.
Inder’s maternal uncle Man Singh, a retired army personnel, said the Assam Riffles headquarters informed him his body will be brought to Pathankot from Imphal by air and then taken to Pandoh in an army vehicle.
Mandi Sadar sub-divisional magistrate (SDM) Pooja Chauhan, who visited that Inder’s house, said he will be cremated with state honours on Wednesday.
