SRINAGAR: Two militants had been killed in an encounter with troops in a forest space of Chatroo within the mountainous Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday. It’s suspected {that a} high Jaish-e-Mohammad commander, Saifullah, was among the many two militants killed within the gunfight.
A Jammu-based defence spokesman mentioned that performing on credible intelligence inputs collated from the Jammu and Kashmir Police, the Intelligence Bureau and different intelligence sources, a joint operation was launched by the Military, police and paramilitary CRPF within the Chatroo forest space of Kishtwar below Operation Trashi-I to trace and neutralise the militants hiding there.
In the course of the search operation, troops established contact with the militants. “The troops of CIF Delta, in shut coordination with the J&Ok Police and CRPF, re-engaged the militants at roughly 11 am in difficult terrain,” the spokesman mentioned.
Displaying tactical precision, seamless synergy and resolute aggression, the troops dominated the encounter website and killed two militants. “Two AK-47 rifles and different war-like shops had been recovered from the encounter website,” the spokesman added.
It’s suspected that Saifullah, one of the crucial needed militants in Jammu and Kashmir, was amongst these killed. He had been lively within the area for the previous few years and was concerned in a number of assaults on safety forces, having escaped a number of operations earlier.
Safety forces have been finishing up an enormous search operation in Chatroo and adjoining forest areas of Kishtwar because the January 18 encounter through which a para commando was killed and others had been injured.
