Kulgam: Jammu and Kashmir police on Thursday identified the JeM (Jaish-e-Muhammad) militant in Kulgam operation last night as Babar Bhai of Pakistan who was active since 2018 and an AK riffle, a pistol and two grenades were recovered from him.
“Last evening at around 6 PM, the Security Forces got human intelligence about presence of militants in general area Sehpura, Kulgam,” police said.
“A joint operation of Indian Army and JKP was launched. Suspected houses were cordoned; the security forces were carrying out house to house searches at 8.45 PM, while searching a house, one militant opened fire with AK and lobbed a grenade.”
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“Since the area and house had civilians, the security forces exercised restraint to first evacuate the civilians. In the process one JKP Constable Rohit was killed, three soldiers and two civilians were injured," police added.
“The injured Army Men and civilians were evacuated to 92 BH, including evacuation of one civilian by Army helicopter. All the injured are stable. War like stores were recovered from the encounter site.”
(KNO)
