Kathua terrorist attack: The second terrorist in Jammu's Kathua has been killed in an encounter as the Indian Army moved in for the final assault after an overnight search operation. A video of the Kathua encounter in Jammu & Kashmir showed security personnel in action against terrorists. The video by news agency PTI showed army jawans crouched behind a wall and lying prone by a gate ready to fire at the terrorists hiding in what appeared to be a forested area.
One of the two terrorists was shot dead on Tuesday evening. The terrorists had opened fire at the vehicles of security personnel.
At the same time, terrorists from Pakistan launched another attack on an Army outpost around 200 km away in Doda. One terrorist was killed and seven people, including a civilian and a special police officer, were injured in the shootout that followed. The Kashmir Tigers, a local militant group, claimed responsibility for the attack.
The shootout began when the terrorists opened fire on security forces in the Saida Sukhal village near Koota Mode in the Hiranagar sector of Kathua district, Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday. As the security forces opened retaliatory fire, one terrorist was shot dead. The encounter ensued after security forces started a combing operation over reports of suspicious movement of three individuals around 7.45 PM.
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As the encounter ensued, ADG Jammu Anand Jain issued a statement, saying: "Two terrorists [who appeared to have freshly infiltrated] surfaced in village Saida Sukhal near Koota morh of Police Station Hira Nagar in the late evening of 11 June. They asked for water from a few houses to which villagers grew suspicious and slammed the doors on them and a few raised hue and cry. The terrorists panicked and fired randomly in the air and also at one odd villagers who were passing by [sic]."
"SHO Hiranagar and SDPO rushed to the spot, engaged the terrorists and one terrorist got killed while lobbing a grenade at the police party. Search of the other terrorist is on. Police with the help of CRPF has cordoned the area. A search party is clearing the houses one by one. So far one family of husband and wife has been evacuated to hospital. While the wife is unhurt, the husband Omkar Nath S/o Dina Nath is injured in the arm and appears to be stable [sic]," he added.
Urging the public to refrain from spreading unverified information about the incident, Jain said it was a national security challenge.