Five terrorists eliminated by security forces in Jammu and Kashmir

Five terrorists were killed in separate encounters with security forces in Shopian and Pulwama districts in Jammu and Kashmir on June 18th, 2020, police said.

The security forces launched a cordon and search operation at Pulawama's Pampore on June 18th, 2020 morning after receiving specific information about the presence of terrorists there, a police official said.

He said the operation turned into an encounter after terrorists fired upon the search party, inviting a retaliation. One terrorist has been killed so far, the official said, adding the operation was still in progress.

While the police officer gave no further details, an Army spokesman said that the terrorists entered a nearby mosque to take refuge. Meanwhile, in the second anti-terrorism operation of the day, security forces killed a terrorist in Shopian, the police official said.

Also read: Jammu and Kashmir: Three militants eliminated in Shopian

On June 16th, 2020, three terrorists were killed in an encounter in Shopian in Jammu and Kashmir, police said.

The encounter broke out between the 44 Rashtriya Rifles and terrorists at around 5 am in Shopian’s Turkwangam area, about 60 km from Jammu and Kashmir’s capital Srinagar, according to the officials. Troops of the Special Operation Group (SOG) at Zainapora and 178 Battalion of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) later joined. The joint security operation ended at around 6:30 am.

One INSAS and two AK-47 rifles were recovered from the encounter site, police said. Search operations are still on.

On June 13th, 2020, two Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists were killed in an encounter in Kulgam district in Jammu and Kashmir.

In Shopian, this is the fourth encounter in nearly a week. Five terrorists were shot dead on June 10 in a joint operation by the troops of the Central Reserve Police Force, Rashtriya Rifles and the Special Operations Group.

Nine terrorists, including three commanders of the Hizbul Mujahideen, were eliminated in two separate encounters in Shopian in less than 24 hours, police had said on June 8.

At least 22 terrorists, including 6 top commanders, have been killed in last two weeks in nine different operations in Jammu and Kashmir, state’s Director General of Police (DGP) Dilbag Singh had said last Monday. Eighty-eight terrorists have been killed this year in around 36 operations, he added.

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