Army personnel Tanzin Chhultim

New Delhi, August 3The Himachal Pradesh government has announced Rs 20 lakh compensation to kin of Army personnel Tanzin Chhultim, who lost his life in Shopian encounter on Thursday.Two Army personnel–Major Kamlesh Pandey and Sepoy Tanzin Chhultim–were killed and two other personnel were injured when terrorists opened fire on a search party of security forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian district.

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A police official said a cordon and search operation was launched by Army in Zaipora area of Shopian during Wednesday night following intelligence inputs about the presence of militants there.He said that during the search operation, the terrorists fired upon the party in which four army personnel were injured.He said the injured were taken to hospital, where two of them succumbed to their injuries.In another encounter, two terrorists were killed in Kulgam district early on Thursday morning. ANI