Jammu and Kashmir: Army’s rescue operation in flood-hit Rajouri saves 11 civilians
Among the 11 rescued persons, five were children. They were stranded at different places in the flood-affected district following incessant rainfall.
A CRPF officer and three policemen were killed on Friday when one of the two terrorists, presumed killed in an encounter in Handwara, got up and started firing at the security forces. A commandant of CRPF and seven other security force personnel were injured in the ongoing encounter.
Reports said that an inspector of CRPF and a policeman was killed and five security personnel injured.
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When a joint search team of Army, police and CRPF went to retrieve the bodies of terrorists amid a lull, one of the two terrorists stood up and fired indiscriminately.
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Inspector Pintoo of 92 battalion of CRPF and a policeman of SOG Handwara, Naseer Ahmad, succumbed to injuries at a hospital, reports said.
The encounter broke out during midnight after the joint team of Army’s 22 RR, 92 CRPF and SOG launched a cordon-and-search operation at Khanan Babagund at Langate.
Meanwhile, clashes broke out near the encounter site between the security forces and stone pelters.
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