Security forces shot dead a Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist during a brief encounter at Gulshanpora village in Tral sub-district of south Kashmir.
Sources said that terrorists and security forces engaged in a brief encounter at Gujjarbasti, a hillside hamlet in Gulshanpora locity of Tral on Monday afternoon resulting into death of a local Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist Adil Rashid Chopan.
Defence spokesperson Colonel Rajesh Kalia confirmed the death of Hizbul terrorist and said that combing operation was launched to track down more militants in the area. Sources said that Chopan was accompanied by two more terrorists who fled into the forest area. local youth took to streets soon after the encounter took place and began marching towards luraw Jagir, his native village. Sources said Chopan survived an earlier encounter in the area in May.
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