Attack on soldiers in Srinagar, terrorist killed in encounter

A militant was killed in a clash that took place on Thursday night in the Malabag area of Srinagar. During this time a CRPF jawan was also martyred and a jawan was injured in the skirmish. Giving information about the encounter in the area behind Kashmir University, IG Vijay Kumar said that one or two accomplices of the terrorist may be hiding around. All the routes of their escape from here have been closed. And the search campaign has been started.

According to the officials, at around 10:15 pm on Thursday night, a patrol of security forces was passing through the Zakura area of Malabag on regular patrol. During this time, the soldiers were seen doing some suspicious activities near a school there. And as the soldiers started moving towards that side, the terrorists hiding there started firing on them. During these two CRPF personnel were seriously injured. Removing the injured soldiers from there, other soldiers surrounded the whole area and started firing back at the terrorists. Thereafter additional security forces also reached the nearby camps. The firing stopped for some time at about eleven past eleven, but after an interval of 10 minutes, firing started again. Officials present at the encounter site said two soldiers were injured.

The injured jawans were immediately rushed to the hospital, where Kuldeep Uruvan, a resident of Sahibganj in Jharkhand, was martyred. Kuldeep is a member of the Quick Action Team of CRPF. After that, a local terrorist has also been killed in the encounter. This terrorist is being described as Sajjad Ahmad Mallah of Shopian. But it has not been officially identified yet. This is the third encounter between security forces and militants in Srinagar city in the last two months. Earlier on 19 May, Hizbul commander Junaid Sahrai was killed along with a partner in Nawakadal. After this, on June 21, three ISJK terrorists were killed in Junimar.

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