Reports suggest that two terrorists managed to flee the spot after firing upon the patrolling party, while one was neutralised by security forces in retaliatory fire.
Two youth were killed and nine others injured allegedly in Army firing at Ganovpora in Shopian yesterday when a stone-pelting mob targeted a convoy.
"Two terrorists were killed. We are looking for the third terrorist who escaped just as cordon was being laid. Operation has concluded now," IGP Police, Muneer told media.
The jawan, a resident of Saazan Keegam, has been identified as Irrfan Ahmad Mir.
The thieves broke open and took away the ATM installed by Jammu and Kashmir Bank in the premises of Shopian district hospital during the intervening night, a police official said.
BJYM leader Gowhar Ahmad Bhat's body was found with the throat slit at Killora village. He was abducted by unidentified terrorists from a government hospital.
Asked about the killing of a BJP youth leader in Shopian yesterday, Major General Raju said these were "acts of desperation" by the militants.
The operation was carried out in around 20 villages of Shopian to nab the hiding Lashkar-e-Taiba, Hizbul Mujahideen and Jaish-e-Mohammad militants.
A militant today surrendered during an encounter with security forces that broke out in Shopian district of south Kashmir
Earlier reports had said the security forces had surrounded Barbugh village on information that militants had been hiding there.
In less than two weeks, security forces today conducted the second major cordon-and-search operation in Kashmir's Shopian district.
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