Encounter breaks out between forces and terrorists in Bandipora

Srinagar: An encounter started on Tuesday between the security forces and terrorists in Nagmarg forest area in Jammu & Kashmir’s Bandipora district. Officials said that an encounter broke out in the Valley when the joint teams of forces launched a search operation in the area.
“As the search party proceeded towards the suspected spot, the hiding terrorists fired indiscriminately upon them, which was retaliated leading to an encounter. The intermittent firing is now going on in the area,” officials said.
Tuesday’s gunfight is the fifth back-to-back gunfight in Kashmir, in areas of Bandipora, Kupwara and Sopore in addition to the one in Kishtwar district of Jammu region where one JCO of the army’s 2 Para was martyred and three other soldiers injured.
The massive search operation started in Kishtwar district entered its sixth day on Tuesday. The search operation was started when two village defence committee (VDC) members, Kuldeep Kumar and Nazir Ahmad were abducted from village Ohli and then brutally shot dead in the forest area of Keshwan in Kishtwar district.ians