Jawans take position outside a house where militants were hiding during an encounter in which top three Hizbul Mujahideen militants and two soldiers were killed, at Awneera in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir on August 13, 2017. | Photo Credit: Nissar Ahmadmore-inThree Hizbul Mujahideen militants were killed in Shopian's Awneera village, the State police have said. “As security personnel tried to zero in on the houses damaged in the gunfight, militants opened fire again,” said a policeman. Militants fired at the approaching security personnel, wounding five Army personnel, two of whom later died. Itoo, often called a ‘vintage militant’ as he joined Hizbul Mujahideen in 1996, had surrendered in 2007 and later released on parole in 2014.

Source: The Hindu August 13, 2017 03:41 UTC