Gunshots had been heard within the higher reaches of Shopian in South Kashmir Tuesday morning.
Senior police officers confirmed the presence of militants within the space and that within the contact, there was an alternate of fireside between safety forces and militants. Nevertheless, with the operation ongoing, officers have avoided divulging additional particulars at this level.
This comes a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised counter strikes as a response to terror with out differentiating between terrorists and the regime that sponsors them. The speech got here within the aftermath of India’s strikes on terrorist websites in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and Pakistan within the aftermath of the killing of 26 civilians in Pahalgam final month.
It additionally comes two weeks after a Hizbul Mujahideen militant’s brother, who officers mentioned was a militant affiliate, was killed in an encounter in Bandipora district of Jammu & Kashmir.
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