An army official said that a soldier was also injured in the gunfight. However, the official informed him that he was evacuated to the Army's 92nd base hospital here, where his condition is stable.
Digital Desk: In Kulgam, a terrorist identified as
Rasiq Ahmed Ganie, a resident of Shouch Kulgam of proscribed terror outfit
Hizbul Mujahideen, was killed, and his body was recovered from the site of the
encounter.
Two terrorists were eliminated in two
separate encounters with security forces in Kulgam and Pulwama districts of
Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, police said.
Acting on specific information
regarding the presence of a terrorist in the village of Khandipora in the
Kulgam area, a cordon and search operation was launched by the security forces
there. A police spokesman said during the search operation, as the search party
approached the suspected spot, he added that the hiding terrorist fired
indiscriminately upon the forces, effectively retaliating, leading to an
encounter.
However, the spokesman said that to
evacuate the civilians trapped around the encounter site, the forces ensured
the evacuation of all civilians to safer places.
In the ensuing encounter, a
categorized terrorist identified as Rasiq Ahmed Ganie, a resident of Shouch
Kulgam of proscribed terror outfit Hizbul Mujahideen, was killed, and his body
was retrieved from the site of the encounter, he said.
An army official said that a soldier
was also injured in the gunfight. However, the official informed him that he
was evacuated to the Army's 92nd base hospital here, where his condition is
stable.
As per police records, the killed
terrorist was involved in several terror crime cases, including attacks on
police and security forces and civilian atrocities, the police spokesman said.
Incriminating materials, including
arms and ammunition, a.303 rifles along with 23 rounds, a pistol along with 31
rounds, a hand grenade, etc., were recovered from the site of the encounter.
The spokesman said that all recovered materials had been taken into case
records for further investigation.
Meantime, another terrorist was killed
in an encounter that broke out in the Pulwama district of south Kashmir later
in the day. The spokesman said the gunfight broke out in the district's Drabgam
area.
