'Dead' Militant Gets up After Encounter to Kill 4 Jawans in J&K's Handwara, Civilian Killed in Clashes
The encounter broke late last night after the joint team of the Army's 22 RR, 92 Battalion CRPF and SOG launched a cordon-and-search operation at Khanan Babagund in Langate.
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Jammu: Two CRPF Inspectors and two officers of the Jammu and Kashmir Police were killed and five other security personnel injured in the gunfight at Babagund Langate area of Handwara in frontier Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir on Friday.
A civilian was killed as well in the clashes that broke out near the encounter site between the forces and youth.
Official sources said the CRPF and the Army personnel went to retrieve the militant bodies amid a lull, one of the two militants, earlier believed to be dead stood up and fired indiscriminately.
The encounter broke late last night after the joint team of the Army's 22 RR, 92 Battalion CRPF and SOG launched a cordon-and-search operation at Khanan Babagund in Langate.
All the injured were taken to district hospital Handwara for treatment.
A civilian was killed as well in the clashes that broke out near the encounter site between the forces and youth.
Official sources said the CRPF and the Army personnel went to retrieve the militant bodies amid a lull, one of the two militants, earlier believed to be dead stood up and fired indiscriminately.
The encounter broke late last night after the joint team of the Army's 22 RR, 92 Battalion CRPF and SOG launched a cordon-and-search operation at Khanan Babagund in Langate.
All the injured were taken to district hospital Handwara for treatment.