Jammu– Two Army personnel, including a junior commissioned officer (JCO), were killed and an equal number injured in an encounter with militants in the higher reaches of Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district, security officials said on Friday.
The gunfight broke out when a joint security party of the Army and police, acting on a tip-off, launched a cordon-and-search operation in the Naidgham area in the Chhatroo belt, they added.
The officials said there was an exchange of fire between the search team of the security forces and the militants hiding in the Pingnal Dugadda forest area in the upper reaches of Naidgham village located within the Chhatroo police station limits.
Four Army personnel were injured in the gunbattle and two of them — JCO Naib Subedar Vipan Kumar and Sepoy Arvind Singh — later succumbed to the injuries, the officials said.
The Army also confirmed the killing of the two soldiers.
The officials said the injured soldiers were airlifted to an Army hospital after preliminary treatment at a local hospital.(PTI)
