Three militants, assistant sub-inspector of J-K police killed in encounter
Tribune News Service
Srinagar, August 30
Three militants and an Assistant Sub Inspector of a counter-insurgency unit of Jammu and Kashmir Police were killed in a gunfight at Panthachowk encounter in city outskirts here on Sunday.
The encounter erupted late Saturday, an hour after bike-borne militants attacked a ‘naka’ party near Panthachowk in which no injury took place.
“Soon after the shooting, a cordon and search operation was launched in the area that led to the encounter. In the encounter three militants and an ASI of police were killed,” a police official said.
Since Friday, ten militants have been killed in three operations.
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