In a major success, a joint team of security forces eliminated four ‘unidentified’ terrorists in a clean operation in South Kashmir’s Shopian district on Wednesday.
According to police, an encounter broke out between forces and a group of terrorists in Melhoora Zainapora on Tuesday evening when security forces cordoned off the area after receiving an input about their presence in the area.
"As we launched a cordon and a search operation in the area, the hiding terrorists fired at joint teams, which was retaliated, triggering an encounter, " a police officer said. "Four terrorists were killed in the gunfight.”
Inspector-General of Police, Kashmir Vijay Kumar said the four slain were still unidentified.
“We have taken DNA samples of all four unidentified killed terrorists. We are conducting burial in presence of a magistrate,” Kumar said.