Terrorist killed in Shopian encounter; BSF jawan injured in Pak firing in Ramgarh

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Srinagar, Nov 09, 2023: One terrorist was reportedly killed after an encounter with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian early on Thursday. According to the details, the gunfight was reported from the Kathohalen area.

 

The slain terrorist, identified as Myser Ahmad Dar, was affiliated with the terror outfit The Resistance Front (TRF), news agency ANI reported, quoting Kashmir Zone Police.

Security forces personnel launched a cordon and search operation in the Kathohalan area of the south Kashmir district following inputs about the presence of militants there, a police official told news agency PTI.

As the forces conducted the exercise, the militants fired upon them, he said.

The forces retaliated, ensuing an encounter in which one terrorist was killed, the official added.

Video shows security forces on the job in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian, where one terrorist was killed during an encounter.

In a separate incident, a Border Security Force (BSF) personnel was injured in unprovoked firing by the Pakistani Rangers along the International Border (IB) in the Ramgarh sector of Samba district early on Thursday.

The firing targeting Border Outposts in the district is the third ceasefire violation in 24 days by the Pakistani Rangers along the IB on the Jammu frontier.

Meanwhile, the crackdown on terror continues in the Kashmir Valley as the Kashmir Police has attached a shop belonging to a Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorist, Umar Amin, in South Kashmir’s Anantnag district.

Umar Amin is presently in custody for his involvement in the targeted killing of a circus worker, Deepak Kumar, in May this year.

On Tuesday, the Jammu and Kashmir Police announced a reward of Rs 10 lakh each for information on the three recent targeted attacks by militants in the valley in which a cop and a non-local labourer were killed.

In a public notice, the police announced a reward of Rs 10 lakh each for credible information about the terrorist attacks that took place on three consecutive days from October 30.

Courtesy: India Today