STATE TIMES NEWS
Srinagar: Four people, including two security personnel, were injured in an encounter that broke out between terrorists and security forces on Thursday after the ultras fired upon a BSF convoy in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kulgam district, officials said.
“Terrorists opened fire on a BSF convoy on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway at Malpora in the Qazigund area of Kulgam,” they said.
The officials said the convoy was on its way to Srinagar from Jammu.
A police spokesperson said there were no injuries in the initial attack but the assailants were trapped as a cordon was laid around the area. “Terrorists fired upon BSF convoy at NHW #Kulgam. No injury reported. However, terrorists trapped,” the police quoted IGP, Kashmir Vijay Kumar as saying. The spokesperson said reinforcements were called in as senior officers of the police, the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and the Army were also present on the spot.
The officials said after the evacuation of civilians from the area, a gunbattle broke out between the security forces and the ultras.
A CRPF jawan and an Army jawan were injured in the exchange of fire, which was intermittently going on between the two sides, they added.
Meanwhile, two civilians with bullet injuries were brought to a hospital in Anantnag for treatment, the officials said.
In another terror related incident, security forces have recovered a cache of arms and drugs in Kupwara district, police said.
A cordon-and-search operation was carried out at Hajitara Taad in the Karnah area near the Line of Control on Wednesday, a police official said.
He said during the search, a cache of arms and ammunition, and one kilogram of heroin worth crores of rupees were found.
The recoveries include 15 hand grenades, five pistols, 150 pistol rounds and three detonators, the official said.
Although a case was registered under relevant sections of the law, no arrests have been made so far, he added.