Uri encounter: 3 Lashkar fidayeen eliminated by security forces

All three militants have been eliminated by the security forces in Jammu and Kashmir.

Kamaljit Kaur Sandhu  | Posted by Bijin Jose
New Delhi, September 24, 2017 | UPDATED 22:21 IST
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Highlights

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    Three lashkar fidayeen were eliminated by forces in Uri.
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    The deceased were planning an attack similar to that of 2016.
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    The third militants were eliminated after locals informed about them to the police.

Even before the snowfall in the upper reaches of the mountains in Uri, Pakistan yet again attempted to push in heavily armed terrorists into Kashmir.

Infiltrated lashkar fidayeen were killed in heavy gun battle after locals informed local police in Uri today. Police said the deceased planned a Uri encounter re run.

DGP SP Vaid told India today " The trio were part of suicide attack who wanted to unleash an Uri style attack."

But in one of the first kind input from alert villagers near the Line of Control (LoC) , Jammu Kashmir Police was at 9pm informed about suspicious movement of terrorists who were heavily armed in Kalgai area of Salamabad inUri. The spot is nearly 3 kilometers away from the main town, which was a site of a fidayeen attack on September 18 by Lashkar group in which 20 Army personnel were martyred. It is 12 kilometers from Kaman post.

A massive joint search operation was launched during the night. Terrorist were tracked down at around 2.30 am. While one of the terrorists had forcibly entered into a civilian home and had taken the family members as hostage. In the early morning, the civilians were rescued and the terrorist was eliminated.

Hunt for two other terrorists was launched and one terrorist was found to have taken refuge in a local mosque.

This put forces in dilemma. Keeping religious sentiment  and the sanctity of the mosque finally a Jammu and Kashmir Police team entered into the mosque and eliminated this terrorist as well.

The third terrorist was also killed later on.

DIG Baramulla range,  Nitish Kumar told India today "JK Police is highly indebted and grateful to brave local population of Uri for informing us well in time helping us to avert a major terror attack."

According to sources "All the three terrorists appear to be from Pakistan" and with their elimination a major terrorist attack has been averted.

The group is believed to have recently infiltrated from Pakistani side of LoC. The operation was conducted by joint teams of Army, Police and CRPF.

Three AK series rifles, 10 AK Magazines, 10 Grenades,  one UBGL and other war like stores were recovered from their possession .