Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, May 9: Two civilians were injured, one of them critically, during an encounter between militants and security forces in Pandoshan area of South Kashmir’s Shopian district today.
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A police official said that two civilians were injured in the encounter that broke out between militants and security forces in Pandoshan area of South Kahsmir’s Shopian.
He said that police and security forces cordoned off village Pandoshan after tip off about the presence of militants in the village. The official said that as the militants tried to escape from the cordon by firing at the troops two civilians were injured, one of them critically.
However police said: “During initial cordon and search operation, militants fired upon civilians and tried to escape, in which two civilians got injured. Both the injured were shifted to hospital. One of them is critical.”
In the meantime, security forces called off operation at Shirmal area of Zainapora in Shopian after no militant was found in the village during the searches launched by the security forces.
Meanwhile security forces arrested one Lashkar-e-Toiba militant in North Kashmir’s Baramulla district today.
A police spokesman said that Baramulla police, 52 RR of Army, 53 Battalion of CRPF and 2nd battalion of SSB established routine MVCP near Juhama crossing Baramulla today. “During checking the party observed movement of one person who was coming towards Kanispora. On seeing the party the individual tried to flee from the spot”, he said.
The police spokesman further stated that the individual was tactfully apprehended, “who on interrogation disclosed his identity as Tawheed Ahmad Haroon son of Late Khazir Mohammad resident of Delina Ghat, Baramulla, he said.
On personal search, one pistol, one pistol magazine and nine live rounds of 9 mm pistol were recovered from his possession.
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