5 More Terrorists neutralized at LOC, 9 terrorists gunned down by Army in the last 24 hrs

 

The Indian Army has successfully killed as many as nine terrorists in the valley in the last 24 hrs, trying to infiltrate from across LoC. While four heavily armed terrorists out of all nine were killed yesterday in South Kashmir, five others were eliminated along LoC in Kupwara’s Keran Sector today. As per the Army sources the terrorists killed in Keran Sector of North Kashmir were trying to infiltrate from across LoC.

 

 

However, one soldier of the Indian Army got martyred during the operation while 2 others got critically injured who have been shifted to the Army hospital. While the operation is still in progress, reports have disclosed that it is being hampered by heavy snow and rough terrain conditions.

 

 

As per army sources, the heavily armed terrorists were intercepted by army right after they infiltrated, this being the first major infiltration attempt in North Kashmir in nearly a year.

 

 

 

 

On April 4, four terrorists belonging to the Hizbul Mujahideen terror group were gunned down by security forces during an encounter in Jammu and Kashmir and bodies were recovered.

 

 

As per the J&K police spokesperson, a Hizbul Mujahideen group of three to four terrorists had been targeting civilians in Kulgam district of South Kashmir from over the last 10 to 12 days. Only recently four civilians were reportedly killed in South Kashmir. Terrorists who killed 3 civilians were trapped by security forces in Hardmand Guri village in Kulgam till yesterday morning.

 

 

The security forces launched a cordon and search operation based on credible intelligence inputs which gave information about the terrorist hiding in a house in Kulgam. Following which the operation was launched soon after and weapons were seized from the scene of encounter.

 

 

In February this year, J&K DGP Dilbag Singh had said that as many as 25 terrorists have been gunned down in the past one month. In 12 successful operations he said, 25 terrorists were killed while more than 40 over-ground-workers have also been arrested.