SRI NAGAR: A militant was killed in an ongoing gunfight between militants and security forces in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Sunday.
Police sources said a joint contingent of police, CRPF and army launched a search operation in Ladoora village of Bandipora, on Saturday morning, after receiving intel about the presence of a group of militants there.
They said while the security personnel were conducting house to house searches in the village, they came under heavy fire from militants hiding in a residential house.“The fire was returned by the troops, triggering an encounter. The exchange of gunfire was going on when reports last poured in,” sources said.
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The National Conference on Sunday condemned the retrictions.
"The measure corresponds to scuttling of people’s religious freedom," the party said in a statement. While taking exception to the curb on holy shrine especially on the occasion of Milad, the party said never in history have such festive and auspicious occasions turned violent.