CIVILIAN KILLED, COP AMONG TWO INJURED DURING ENCOUNTER IN SHOPIAN: POLICE

SRINAGAR: A civilian was killed, while two others, including a soldier, were injured in an overnight encounter between security forces and terrorists in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Tuesday.

Security forces had launched a cordon and search operation in Pandoshan area in Shopian following information about the presence of terrorists there on Monday evening, a police official said.

He said the search operation turned into an encounter after the terrorists opened fire on security forces, who retaliated. In the initial exchange of fire, two civilians -- Shoaib Yousf Dar and Shahid Ganie Dar, both residents of Pandochan -- and an Army soldier Lance Naik Sanju Dass, were injured, the official said. The injured were taken to the Army’s 92 base hospital in the city where Dar succumbed to his injuries, the official added.

On Monday, Security forces arrested a “hybrid” terrorist from Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla district and seized arms and ammunition from his possession, police said.

During routine vehicle checking at a mobile checkpost set up near Baramulla’s Juhama crossing, the security forces intercepted a man who, on seeing them, tried to flee, a police spokesperson said.

However, the man was tactfully apprehended by the alert personnel, the police spokesperson said, adding that he was identified as Tawheed Ahmad Haroon, a resident of Baramulla’s Delina Ghat.

Incriminating material, arms and ammunition, including a pistol, a pistol magazine and nine live rounds, were seized from his possession, the police spokesperson said.