Powerful IEDs recovered near LoC ahead of polling for Udhampur seat
Reports said that the IEDs were recovered near the Line of Control (LoC) in a joint search operation by the Rashtriya Rifles of the Indian Army, CRPF and J&K Police.
An Army soldier was injured on Saturday when Pakistani troops targeted Indian positions along the Line of Control (LoC) in the Naushera sector of Rajouri district.
Army spokesman, Lt. Colonel Devender Anand, said that the soldier has been evacuated to the Command Hospital at Udhampur where he was out of danger.
He said that in the morning at about 10.30 am Pakistani troops opened up Small Arms fire leading to Injury to one soldier.
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The Indian positions were strongly retaliating to the violation by Pakistani troops.
Meanwhile, security forces killed five terrorists of the Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) in an encounter on Saturday in the Chowgam area of Kulgam district in South Kashmir. Police said the Chowgam encounter between security forces and terrorists broke out in the early hours of Saturday.
An officer said the encounter started when a joint team of Army, CRPF and Special Operations Group (SOG) of the police cordoned the area following reports of presence of militants of the two outfits.
While three terrorists were neutralised within a few minutes after the encounter began, the remaining two trapped terrorists were killed later.
Train services in the Valley have been suspended as a precautionary measure.
The police described the Chowgam encounter as a huge success as the group was a combination of HM and LeT terrorists. They said these militants were involved in a series of terror acts, including the killing of two bank employees and many policemen.
They were also involved in bank robberies and weapon loots, said the police.
The security forces had on Thursday killed eight Pakistani terrorists in three separate encounters in J&K.
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