Three unidentified terrorists were gunned down and two civilians sustained injuries in an encounter that broke out between the militants and the security forces at Kakpora in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district in Jammu and Kashmir's on Friday morning.
"Three unidentified terrorists killed in an encounter at Pulwama. Incriminating materials, including arms and ammunition, recovered. Search going on," police said.
Earlier the gunfight took place after a joint team of the police and the Army cordoned off the area and launched a search operation based on specific information about the presence of terrorists in the Kakapora area of the south Kashmir district.
The search operation turned into an encounter when the terrorists retaliated with gunfire, he added.
As the security forces zeroed in on the spot where terrorists were hiding they came under a heavy volume of fire that triggered the encounter.
As per the sources, the terrorists gunned down were involved in the attack on the house of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Anwar Khan in which a constable was killed.
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The civilians who got injured in the encounter were later sent to the hospital and have been identified as Ishrat Jan (25) and Ghulam Nabi Dar (42), both residents of Pulwama's Samboora, the officials informed.
The operation is underway and more details about the attack and militants are awaited.