PTI, SRINAGAR: Three Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terrorists, a civilian and a soldier were killed Thursday in an encounter in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said.
Incriminating material including ammunition were recovered from the encounter site, a police spokesman said.
“On a credible input, a cordon and search operation was launched this morning by police and security forces at Delipora area in district Pulwama,” he said.
He said as the security forces were evacuating civilians from the neighbourhood of the target house, the hiding terrorists fired indiscriminately.
“In the process, one Army Jawan Sepoy Sandeep attained martyrdom and a civilian Rayees Dar also lost his life,” the spokesman said.
In the retaliatory action by security forces, three terrorists were killed in the ensuing encounter and their bodies were retrieved, he said.
“They were identified as Naseer Pandith of Kareemabad Pulwama, Umar Mir of Shopian and Khalid from Pakistan,” he said.
