LoC: Security forces foil infiltration bid in Kupwara; two terrorists gunned down

SRINAGAR: Security forces Tuesday foiled an infiltration bid on the Line of Control (LoC) successful Kupwara district’s Keran sector, astir 130km from Srinagar, and gunned down 2 terrorists.

A ample cache of weapons and instrumentality was seized from the tract of the encounter.On October 13 evening, a associated squad of the Army and J&K Police had launched an anti-terror cognition successful Machhal assemblage based connected quality inputs “corroborated by sources and agencies” regarding a imaginable infiltration attempt, the Army said successful a statement.Alert unit spotted suspicious enactment and challenged the infiltrators, who opened indiscriminate occurrence astatine the forces, the Army said.

“Troops responded with effectual fire, neutralising 2 terrorists,” it added.Officials said efforts were connected to retrieve the bodies of the infiltrators, which were spotted lying adjacent to the LoC. The country was being combed, and a monolithic cordon-and-search cognition was underway, the Army stated.Meanwhile, J&K Police carried retired extended searches crossed aggregate locations successful southbound Kashmir’s Shopian district. The premises raided included the houses of erstwhile Hurriyat activists and those antecedently associated with the banned Jamaat-e-Islami organisation.