2 militants killed in gunfight with security in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian

Security forces started a cordon and search operation in a village of Shopian following information about a group of militants hiding in the village.

Two militants were killed in a gunfight with the security forces on Saturday in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian district, police said.

Army soldiers near the site of an encounter in southern district of Shopian, Jammu and Kashmir on May 06, 2018. Two militants were killed in a gunfight with the security forces on Saturday in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian district, police said. (Representative Image/HT File Photo)

Security forces started a cordon and search operation in a village of Shopian following information about a group of militants hiding in the village.

“As the cordon around the hiding militants was tightened, they fired at the surrounding security forces triggering an encounter in which two militants were killed,” said a senior police official, adding the operation was going on.

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