5 security personnel martyred and 2 terrorists killed in an encounter at a village in north Kashmir’s Handwara area, officials said on Sunday.
Srinagar| A Colonel, Major and 2 jawans of the Indian Army along with a sub-inspector of Jammu and Kashmir Police martyred in an encounter with terrorists at a village in north Kashmir’s Handwara area on Sunday.
A police officer and two army soldiers were also martyred as the security personnel came under heavy fire.
Two terrorists were also killed in the encounter at the Chanjmulla area of Handwara, which is part of north Kashmir’s Kupwara district.
In the Handwara area of the district in north Kashmir, which is about 70 km from J&K capital Srinagar, a joint anti-terrorist operation by armed forces and J&K Police began on Saturday, an official statement said, adding the team was able to rescue several civilians.
The Army officers were leading a team to rescue civilians who had been taken hostage by the terrorists.
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“The team of Army and JK Police entered the tgt (target) area and successfully extricated the civ. However, during the process, the team was subjected to a heavy volume of fire by the terrorists,” an official statement said.
In Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, five security forces personnel had gone missing during the operation, even as two unidentified militants were killed in another encounter in Pulwama, officials said.
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