As the troops neared the house they came
under heavy fire in which three soldiers were wounded.
The jawans retaliated and two militants were killed on
the spot. Three others were injured. Five other
militants, hiding in the house, escaped. With the killing of two militants
in todays encounter the total number of insurgents,
most of them foreign mercenaries, killed in Poonch,
Rajouri and Doda districts in the past 10 days has risen
to 23. This includes the killing of Mohd Gujjar, who had
masterminded the Chamba massacre in which 35 labourers
were killed.
In the offensive launched
by the security forces five army jawans besides a Major,
one constable and a village defence committee member lost
their lives.
According to the IGP
militants in the Poonch and Rajouri sectors were on the
run and most of them were trying to cross over to
Pakistan. He said among the 10 militants killed in Poonch
and Rajouri districts in recent days six were gunned down
while trying to cross the Line of Actual Control
indicating that the insurgents had buckled under the
pressure mounted by the security forces.
He explained that
yesterdays incident at Mandhar in Poonch district
in which two top militants belonging to the
Hizb-ul-Mujahideen outfit were killed was the result of
an operation launched by the police. He said the police
had not sought any help from either the Army or the BSF
and in the encounter was killed and two others were
injured.
SRINAGAR: Securitymen
apprehended a militant and seized 1000 rounds of
ammunition and two hand grenades from Dally village in
Jammu during the period, official sources said here
today.
Two militants and a
special police officer (SPO) were killed and three police
jawans injured during an encounter at Karni village of
Poonch district yesterday, they said.
In a separate incident, a
SPO allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself from a
tree at Ramsu in Doda district.
Two Pakistan-trained
militants were killed in two separate encounters with the
security forces in Kupwara and Gund Ashun in Baramula
district of north Kashmir.
Saifuddin alias Jamaal,
arrested from Gagloosa in Kupwara today, was shot dead by
the security forces when he tried to escape, the
spokesman said.
However, residents alleged
that Saifuddin was killed in custody and held a noisy
demonstration.
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