J&K: Security forces gun down 4 terrorists hiding in truck

India

oi-Madhuri Adnal

New
Delhi,
Dec
28:
The
security
forces
have
gunned
down
four
terrorists
in
an
encounter
that
took
place
on
the
Panjtirthi-Sidhra
road
in
Jammu
this
morning.

Additional
forces
had
to
be
rushed
to
the
spot
as
there
was
a
grenade
blast
following
which
an
exchange
of
fire
took
place
between
the
security
forces
and
terrorists.
Additional
Director
General
of
Police,
Mukesh
Singh
said
that
they
noticed
unusual
movement
of
a
truck
and
followed
it.
The
truck
was
stopped
at
Sidhra
in
Jammu
and
the
driver
managed
to
flee,
he
added.
When
the
truck
was
searched
we
found
terrorists
hiding
in
it,
Singh
also
said.
The
terrorists
fired
at
the
forces
and
retaliatory
firing
was
done,
he
said.

The
encounter
was
first
reported
by
the
residents
who
woke
up
this
morning
to
the
sounds
to
six
grenade
blasts
followed
by
a
heavy
exchange
of
fire.

On
Monday,
the
police
had
defused
an
Improvised
Explosive
Device
(IED)
weighing
15
kilograms
which
was
recovered
in
Jammu
and
Kashmir’s
Udhampur
district.
A
major
terror
attack
had
been
averted
thanks
to
the
alert
forces.
Following
one
coded
sheet
and
one
letter
pad
of
the
banned
terror
group
Lashkar-e-Tayiba
was
found
at
the
spot.
Official
said
that
a
case
has
been
registered
at
the
Basantgarh
police
station
and
further
investigation
is
underway.

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3
Terrorists
killed
in
Shopian
encounter;
search
operation
on

“IED-like
material
weighing
around
15
kg
in
a
cylindrical
shape,
300-400
grams
of
RDX,
seven
cartridges
of
7.6
mm,
five
detonators,
one
coded
sheet,
one
letter
pad
page
of
banned
terrorist
organisation
LET
in
Basantgarh
area
of
District
Udhampur,
one
suspect
has
also
been
detained,”
a
statement
by
the
police
read.

In
November
the
Jammu
and
Kashmir
police
and
the
security
forces
undertook
a
joint
operation
and
recovered
one
AK-47
rifle,
an
AK-56
rifle,
four
AK
series
magazines,
RDX
powder,
nails
and
ball
bearings,
live
rounds,
batteries,
detonators,
IED
mechanism
circuit
at
Bandipora,.