SRINAGAR: An encounter was ensued between militants and security forces in Tangdhar sector in the frontier Kashmir district of Kupwara, where two militants, including Hizb-ul-Mujahideen commander, were killed on June 28 in separate incidents.
Official sources here today said that following specific information about presence of militants in the woods of Jabdi in Kupwara, a search operation was launched in the area.
However, when security forces were moving towards a particular area, militants hiding there, fired at them indiscriminately with automatic weapons.
Security forces also retaliated, ensuing in an encounter, they said. Additional security forces were rushed to further cordon off the area to foil any attempts by militants to escape, they added.
The HM commander was killed in a fierce encounter with security forces at Nagri Drugmulla on June 28 while on the same day another militant was killed in the woods near Warnow village in Kupwara. (AGENCIES)
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