Baramulla: An encounter broke out between terrorists and security forces in Uri sector along the Line of Control (LoC) in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district, officials said here on Saturday evening.
The gunfight started when security forces launched a search operation in Bajrang-Uri sector following specific information about the presence of some infiltrating terrorists, the officials told the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO).
They said the hiding terrorists opened fire on the security personnel, who retaliated, thereby triggering a gunfight.
Meanwhile, the Army’s Chinar Corps, in a post on ‘X’, said: “Based on specific intelligence inputs, an anti infiltration Operation was launched in the Uri Sector. Contact was established with infiltrating terrorists and operations are in progress.”
Kashmir Images is an English language daily newspaper published from Srinagar (J&K), India. The newspaper is one of the largest circulated English dailies of Kashmir and its hard copies reach every nook and corner of Kashmir Valley besides Jammu and Ladakh region.
