New Delhi: A terrorist has been killed by the safety forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Awantipora throughout an encounter within the early hours of Tuesday. Police mentioned that the physique of the terrorist is but to be retrieved by the forces.
Kashmir Zone Police confirmed the information on Twitter and mentioned, “#AwantiporaEncounterUpdate: 01 #terrorist killed. Physique of the killed terrorist but to be retrieved. #Encounter in progress. Additional particulars shall observe.”
Earlier, police knowledgeable that an encounter broke out in Pulwama district’s Padgampora Awantipora between terrorists and safety forces.
“Encounter has began at Padgampora Awantipora in Pulwama district. Police and safety forces are on the job. Additional particulars shall observe,” Kashmir Zone police mentioned in a tweet.
#AwantiporaEncounterUpdate: 01 #terrorist killed. Physique of the killed terrorist but to be retrieved. #Encounter in progress. Additional particulars shall observe.@JmuKmrPolice https://t.co/2Wl6bIhYZH
— Kashmir Zone Police (@KashmirPolice) February 27, 2023
The event comes two days after a 40-year-old Kashmiri Pandit was shot useless by terrorists whereas he was on his solution to the native market in Pulwama, in one other case of goal killing.
The locals took him to a hospital the place Sharma succumbed to bullet accidents. In keeping with PTI, police mentioned that Sanjay Sharma, who labored as an ATM guard, was shot within the chest at point-blank vary within the Achan space of the south Kashmir district at round 11 am.
DIG Rayees Mohammad Bhat mentioned that hunt is on to nab the attackers. “The incident happened round 10:30 am. Terrorists fired upon a member of a minority neighborhood when he was going in the direction of a market alongside together with his spouse. We’re trying to find the terrorist and we’ll neutralise them as early as potential,” he informed ANI.
As per native inputs, the deceased was a safety guard in a personal financial institution. There are reported to be two assailants who fired upon him. Sanjay Sharma is alleged to have been shot at shut quarters.
Police have cordoned off the realm and launched a search operation to nab the attackers.
The deceased labored as an ATM guard in a financial institution however was not reporting to obligation of late following an earlier spate of terror assaults on his neighborhood members, his colleagues mentioned as quoted by PTI.
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