Operation in Bijapur involved 800 security personnel and came on the back of an intelligence report about the movement of over 60 Maoists, it is learnt. Intermittent firing still on.
Police said initially, there was a brief exchange of firing between the terrorists and security forces after which the cordon was tightened and search intensified.
The operation in Kashmir, which began Tuesday evening, is still on. Uzair Khan, a self-styled commander of Pakistan-backed terror group LeT, is among two being tracked.
Joint team of Army and J&K police was climbing up steep hill in Kokernag in southern Kashmir’s Anantnag district to bust a terrorist hideout when terrorists opened fire.
The security forces had launched a search and cordon operation in Sangam area of Anantnag district following information about presence of militants there, said a police officer.
According to a police statement, the incident took place in the wooded hills of the Tipong Reserve Forest, around the Ledo-Margherita area, around 1.30 am Thursday.
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