NEW DELHI, Nov 17: Five alleged terrorists were gunned down in two separate incidents of encounters with a joint security force of the Indian army and the local police in Kulgam district in south Kashmir.
According to the Jammu and Kashmir police, the terrorists were killed in the Pombay and Goplapora areas of the district. In the Goplapora encounter, a commander of the militant outfit ‘The Resistance Front’ (TRF), Afaq Sikander, was among those killed.
Gunfight had broken out earlier in the day between terrorists and security forces at Pombay and Goplapora. The security forces had launched cordon and search operations in two areas of the district after receiving information about the presence of militants there, said a police official. The search operations turned into encounters after militants fired upon the security forces and they retaliated, the official added.
(Manas Dasgupta)