2 LeT Terrorists Trapped in Fresh Encounter in Kashmir a Day after 2 Army Officers, DSP were Killed

Srinagar: A fresh gunfight broke out on Thursday in the Kokernag area a day after two Army officers and a police officer were killed during an ambush in the forest area of Gadool village of Kokernag. According to reports two terrorists of the LeT are trapped.

Security forces have launched an aerial operation to track down the hiding terrorists.

Receiving intelligence reports about the presence of these terrorists, a joint team of Army and police trekked one km inside the jungle. The terrorists involved in the fresh gunfight could be related to the terrorists from the Rajouri-Poonch axis in Jammu to south Kashmir.

On Wednesday, three security personnel — a colonel commanding a battalion and a major, and a J&K DSP were killed in the gunfight with terrorists in the Kokorenag area while a soldier went missing.

Colonel Manpreet Singh, Commanding Officer of 19 Rashtriya Rifles, Major Ashish Dhonack, and Deputy Superintendent Humayun Bhat succumbed to their injuries. A jawan also died. The whereabouts of another soldier were not immediately known and it is feared he might have been seriously wounded.