Stage set for tomorrow’s polling in high profile Udhampur LS seat amid high security
Jammu and Kashmir has five Lok Sabha constituencies and each one will go to polls in separate phases because of security reasons.
An Indian Army soldier and two militants were killed on Friday in a gunfight in Sopore area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla district, police said.
The soldier was identified as Brijesh Kumar. He was injured minutes after the Pazalpora village encounter in the Sopore area started. He succumbed to his injuries at the Army Base Hospital in Srinagar.
Kumar sustained injuries after the security forces laid a cordon around the village and militants, who were hiding, started firing, triggering the encounter.
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“Two terrorists have been killed in the Sopore operation,” said Col Rajesh Kalia, the defence spokesman in Srinagar.
The bodies of the two terrorists were yet to be recovered and identified, a police officer said. He said the identity and group affiliation of the slain ultras was being ascertained.
The Rashtriya Rifles (RR), Special Operations Group (SOG) of the state police and the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), had launched the joint operation early in the day after receiving specific inputs on militant presence.
Authorities have ordered all schools and colleges in Sopore town to remain shut for the day.
There are reports that more militants are holed up at the encounter site.
The operation is in progress, Col Kalia said, adding further details were awaited.
(With agency inputs)
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