Srinagar: Two terrorists were killed and a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel martyred in an encounter on the outskirts of Srinagar on Wednesday morning.
According to a police official, motorcycle-borne borne terrorists fired at troops of the 73 Battalion of CRPF who were on their Naka duty at around 5 am on Wednesday.
“The alert CRPF soldiers retaliated and neutralized two terrorists and apprehended one terrorist who got injured in the exchange of fire,” said the police official adding that arms and ammunition were recovered from the encounter site.
Constable Ramesh Ranjan, who hails from Ara in Bihar, received a bullet injury on the head and attained martyrdom.
He said that the identity of the slain terrorists is being established.
This is the second encounter in the last one week. On January 31, three Pakistani terrorists were killed in an encounter at Nagrota, on the outskirts of Jammu after a police team was randomly checking a vehicle near a toll post.
Last month, Jammu and Kashmir police had arrested five operatives of Jaish-e-Mohammed from Srinagar who were involved in grenade attack on security forces.