04 September,2023 06:35 PM IST | Jammu | mid-day online correspondent
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A senior official on Monday said that a terrorist was killed and a policeman sustained injuries in an ongoing encounter in a remote area of Jammu and Kashmir's Reasi district, agency reports stated. "One terrorist killed so far; one Police personnel injured. Details awaited," officials had told news agency ANI.
A report quoted the Additional Director General of Police, Jammu Zone, Mukesh Singh saying that the encounter broke out during a search and cordon operation and two terrorists were still trapped in the besieged Gali Sohab village in the Tuli area of the union territory.
The ADGP said that the search operation was launched on Monday afternoon after the police received information on two terrorists in the area.
"Encounter started at Reasi. On the basis of police input regarding the presence of two terrorists. Encounter going on in Gali Sohab in Tuli area of Chassana sir," ADGP Mukesh Singh had told ANI.
He said that one terrorist had been killed so far and they were trying to neutralise the other. He added that a policeman was injured in the gunfight and has been hospitalised.
An encounter between security forces and terrorists broke out on August 21 in the Larrow-Parigam area of Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district. One terrorist was killed during the operation which began on Sunday, August 20 night after security forces launched a search operation in the area following intelligence about the presence of terrorists in the region. This was the second such instance of an encounter in the Pulwama district within a fortnight. The Pulwama district is known to be one of the most volatile areas in the union territory.
Earlier in August, three army personnel were killed in an encounter with militants in Kulgam district. The security forces had launched a cordon and search operation in the Halan forest area in southern Kashmir following a tip-off about the presence of militants in the area. During the search operation, the militants fired at the security forces and they retaliated. In the exchange, three security forces personnel sustained injuries and later succumbed during treatment.
With ANI inputs
