New Delhi: A terrorist was neutralised in an encounter with security forces in Bandipora district of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday, police said.
Reportedly, the encounter broke out between terrorists and security forces in Hajin area of Bandipora earlier Thursday morning.
Security forces launched a cordon and search operation in village Shakurdin following information about the presence of terrorists there, a police official said.
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The official said the search operation turned into an encounter after terrorists opened firing towards security forces.
Earlier on Sunday, a policeman lost his life in a terrorist attack at Soura in Srinagar.
The police personnel was guarding the residence of a Hurriyat Conference (M) leader as a militant attacked him and decamped with his service rifle at Soura in the outskirts of Srinagar.
This was the second attack in a row after a policeman was killed while guarding Charar-e-Sherief in the central Kashmir’s Budgam district on Sunday afternoon.