Internet services suspended

Fierce fight still raging; incident comes day after 2 Pak Armymen shot dead

The Army on Saturday said that it killed six infiltrating militants in Rampur sector of the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir’s north-western Baramulla district.

The incident comes a day after the Army had said it stopped an infiltration attempt backed by the Pakistan Army along the de facto border by killing two intruders believed to be the members of a Pakistan Army’s Border Action Team (BAT).

“In two days as many as 10 heavily-armed intruders and terrorists have been eliminated by the security forces in their mounted relentless operations to thwart attempts by Pakistan to boost terror activities from across the LoC,” said the Army’s Northern Command spokesman Colonel N.N. Joshi.

He said that a fierce firefight is underway between militants and the Army troops in Rampur sector and, so far, six of them have been killed.

“A group of six armed intruders was intercepted and eliminated,” the spokesman said. He also spoke about the encounter in which top Hizb-ul-Mujahedin commander Sabzar Ahmed Bhat was killed along with two others. Mobile internet services were suspended in Kashmir Valley on Saturday as a precautionary measure in the wake of killing of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Sabzar Ahmad Bhat in an encounter with security forces in Tral.

Mobile internet services have been snapped across the Valley since the afternoon, officials said. However, BSNL broadband service was functioning normally, they said.

The officials said the services were suspended as a precautionary measure to check rumour-mongering following protests at various places against Bhat's killing at Tral in the morning. The mobile internet suspension comes hours after the government lifted a month-long ban on 22 social networking websites and apps in the Valley. Stone pelting incidents have been reported in Tral in Pulwama and Khanabal in Anamtnag district. 6 infiltrators killed at LoC