Braving bone chilling weather conditions the joint team of security forces were put on the job to neutralise a group of holed up terrorists in the Lawaypora area of Srinagar late Tuesday evening.
Till the time of filing the report, intense exchange of firing was going on in the thickly populated area. The additional reinforcements were also rushed to the spot to plug the exit routes and to contain public anger in the area following sporadic incidents of stone pelting from nearby areas where the gun fight was raging on. The traffic on the Srinagar-Baramulla highway was also disrupted after the gunfight broke out.
The twitter handle of the Kashmir Zone police posted a tweet claiming, “Encounter has started at Lawaypora area of Srinagar. Police and security forces are on the job. Further details shall follow”.
Meanwhile, a CRPF officer and an Army jawan, injured in separate incidents of terrorist violence last week, succumbed to their injuries in the last 24 hours in Kashmir valley.
Official sources said, Assistant sub-inspector of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Netrapal Singh, who got injured in a grenade attack at Ganderbal on December 23, died at a hospital here on Tuesday.
This has taken the death toll of CRPF personnel in the grenade attack to two as a jawan had succumbed to his injuries a day after the attack.
Army Havildar A K Tomar breathed his last at the Army”s 92 base hospital here on Monday, the officials said.
They said Tomar had sustained grievous injuries during a gunfight with terrorists in the Kanigam area of Shopian on Friday. Two terrorists were killed in the operation.
The Army paid tributes to Tomar at a solemn ceremony at the Badamibagh cantonment.
Tomar (40) had joined the Indian Army in 2001. He belonged to Sisauli village in Uttar Pradesh”s Meerut district. He is survived by his wife and two children.