J K News Today

Srinagar, April 24:

 In an ongoing encounter in Tral forests  in South Kashmir,  two security personnel and a militant have been killed till the last reports came in.

The reports reaching here said intense gun battle started early Tuesday morning  and it was the first after the army had to abandon  its  operations in Khudwani, Kulgam early this month .

The policeman killed in the encounter has been identified as Latif Gojri. He was injured in the encounter, later he succumbed to his injuries.

On April 1, as many as 13 militants, four civilians and three soldiers were killed and more than 70 protesters injured in three separate gunfights in south Kashmir.

On April 11, four civilians and a soldier were killed in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district even as two militants escaped as protesters threw stones at security personnel.