J-K | Army soldier killed, militants escape in Kupwara encounter

An Army soldier was killed on Friday in a brief gunfight between the security forces and militants in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district, police said.

“Militants have managed to escape. Searches are on in the area,” said a police officer.

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Following specific inputs, security forces laid a cordon around Kachlu village in Kralgund area. When the cordon was tightened, hiding militants opened fire triggering the encounter in which the soldier was injured.

He succumbed to injuries in the hospital.

Meanwhile, the Pakistan Army on Friday resorted to unprovoked firing on Indian forward posts on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district, defence sources said.

“Adequate retaliatory action was taken by our troops. No casualty has been reported from our side,” the sources said.