Two suspected foreign militants were on Friday killed in a gun-battle with security forces near Waderbala village of Handwara area in Jammu and Kashmir’s frontier district of Kupwara.
Two suspected foreign militants were on Friday killed in a gun-battle with security forces near Waderbala village of Handwara area in Jammu and Kashmir’s frontier district of Kupwara. Officials said that acting on specific information about the presence of militants at Waderbala, members of the State police’s counterinsurgency Special Operations Group (SOG) along with Arm’s 21 Rashtriya Rifles laid siege to the village around 1.30 am. During the ensuing search operation, the militants hiding in the village while opening indiscriminate fire fled towards woods up Bhat Mohalla of Waderbala. “The fire was retaliated and an encounter ensued in which two foreign terrorists were killed,” a statement issued by the police here said. A report from Handwara, however, said that the duo was part of a bigger group of militants, possibly four to five in number, but split from it amid the area receiving heavy snowfall and rains over past couple of days. Security forces’ reinforcements have arrived in the area to take on the remaining militants who are believed to be hiding in woods, reports said.
A police official said the identity of the slain militants is being ascertained “but they seem to be foreigners, may be Pakistani nationals.” Two AK 47 rifles along with 6 magazines and 46 rounds, four UBGLs and two radio sets, two maps, two pouches and a diary were found on the slain men.
