SRINAGAR – One of the two civilians injured in an encounter between the security forces and militants in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag district, succumbed to injuries in the hospital on Sunday.
Officials said that two civilians were injured in the Ahlan Gandole area of Anantnag’s famous tourist spot Kokernag during the encounter between the security forces and the militants on Saturday.
Two soldiers were also killed in this encounter. Five other persons, including three soldiers and two civilians, were injured.
The Army said that a massive search operation is still underway in the area on Sunday.
The Army stated on Saturday evening on the Kokernag gunfight, “Suspicious movement was observed at approximately 1400 hours on 10 August, on challenging, was immediately responded to by indiscriminate, desperate and reckless firing from militants in which two Army personnel and two civilians, in the vicinity, were injured. The terror antecedents of the injured civilians are being ascertained,” the Army added.
The area is above 10,000 feet in high altitude and has thick undergrowth, large boulders and nallahs that pose a serious challenge to operations. ” The security forces are moving deliberately and are in the process of hunting down the militants…” said the Army. -IANS
