The attack happened after an army colonel, a major, two soldiers and a police sub-inspector besides two terrorists were killed in an encounter in Handwara on Saturday. Celebs from Bollywood and South film industry pay homage on social media.
Indian captain Virat Kohli on Sunday paid tribute to the security personnel who lost their lives in the Handwara encounter.
Details coming out from the site of encounter in Handwara, Pulwama district, suggest that the security forces didn’t go for the kill on the first instance just because they wanted to shield the locals, who were being employed as ‘human shields’ by the terrorists holed up in the spot
Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed solidarity for courageous soldiers and security personnel martyred in Handwara. Taking it to Twitter, PM Modi said, "their valour and sacrifice will never be forgotten."
The banned terror outfit Hizbul Mujahideen and Lashkar-e-Taiba's (LeT) newly formed The Resistance Front (TRF), were quibbling over the credit for perpetrating the terror attack in Kashmir's Handwara town.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday described as "deeply disturbing and painful" the killing of five security personnel including two senior Army officers, a colonel and a major, in an anti-terror operation in the Handwara area of north Kashmir.
Mobile internet services were snapped in the area as the encounter continued.
One civilian was also killed in the clashes that broke out close to the encounter site.
Search operation was launched in the area which later turned into an encounter.
The encounter, which broke out in Handwara’s Unisoo on Sunday night, concluded with the killing of three militants who are believed to be Pakistanis, belonging to the terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).
In a shocking revelation, it has been found that one of the three suicide attackers involved in a foiled assault on an Army camp in Jammu and Kashmir’s Handwara on October 6 was a member of the Pakistan-based Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD).
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