Sopore: Two unidentified militants were killed on Friday following an overnight gunfight in the Panipora area of north Kashmir’s Sopore, police said.
The militants were killed in an anti-militancy operation that began late Thursday evening and is still ongoing, according to sources.
Officials said the encounter was suspended due to darkness and resumed with the first light of day. In the continued operation, two militants were killed, though the bodies have yet to be recovered.
On Thursday, the Army’s 22 Rashtriya Rifles, the Special Operations Group, and the Sopore police launched a joint anti-militancy operation following a tipoff about the presence of militants.
This marks the third such operation in northern Kashmir in 24 hours, following the killing of two Pakistani militants in separate gunfights in the Bandipora and Lolab forests on Wednesday.
The first week of November saw six anti-militancy operations across the Kashmir Valley, resulting in the deaths of five militants.
In October, nine civilians were killed in terror-related violence in Kashmir, including seven non-local labourers, an army soldier, and a doctor in multiple attacks.
These attacks occurred shortly after the first assembly elections in more than a decade, marking a significant political shift since the revocation of Jammu and Kashmir’s special status under Article 370.
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