Two militants, five security forces’ personnel, including a CRPF officer, and a civilian were killed in a 56-hour encounter in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Sunday. A police spokesman said the operation at Babagund area of Kupwara took time as it posed considerable difficulties to the security forces due to the topography of the area. Two militants were killed by security forces in the encounter which began on Friday morning, the police spokesman said here. He said bodies of both the militants were recovered from the site of the encounter and their identities and affiliations are being ascertained. The encounter had begun when security forces launched a search operation in Babagund area in north Kashmir, following information about the presence of militants there.

Source: Huffington Post March 03, 2019 08:48 UTC