Security forces, acting on an intelligence input, launched operation in Mulnar area of Harwan Monday morning. Two rounds of gunshots heard as security forces carried out searches.
Two police and one army officer injured in the operation were rushed to hospital. The joint operation was based on intel about terrorists in Shinawari Zargari, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The encounter took place during a search operation in the area of Chhatru by security forces. Additional forces have been deployed & the operation to neutralise the terrorists is going.
Terrorists opened fire and killed at least 28 people, mostly tourists, in what was the deadliest attack in the Valley since the Pulwama strike in 2019.
The attack in Pahalgam area of J&K’s Anantnag district, occurred earlier Tuesday. Northern Army Lt Gen MV Suchindra Kumar is reportedly on his way to Srinagar from Udhampur.
In a post on X, the Rashtrapati Bhavan handle said that the terrorist attack on tourists was a dastardly and inhuman act which must be condemned unequivocally.
Siddaramaiah says he held an emergency meeting with state officials to coordinate response efforts. This came after it was reported that tourists from Karnataka were among those injured.
In a post on X, Shah said that he had briefed PM Modi on the incident and that he will be travelling to Srinagar soon to hold an urgent security review meeting with all the agencies.
Eyewitnesses recall heavily armed terrorists walking out of the woods of Baisaran, a meadow atop a hill in Pahalgam, surrounding a group of 40 tourists, and firing indiscriminately.
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