Two Indian Army soldiers were killed and two others injured in a gunfight with suspected militants in the Chatroo area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district on Friday.
Three suspected militants were killed in a gunfight that started Friday night after a joint team of security forces cordoned off Chak-e-Tapper village in North Kashmir’s Kreeri area in Baramulla district.
In the aftermath of twin gunfights that claimed the lives of four militants and two army men in the Kulgam district of Kashmir, several questions have arisen regarding the tactics employed by Indian armed forces.
Two militant organisations have issued statements denouncing and condemning what they termed a “heinous” attack on civilians in Jammu and Kashmir's Reasi, that left ten dead and 33 injured.
Congress on Friday attacked the Union government over the killing of security personnel in an encounter in Jammu and Kashmir, saying the ruling establishment does not pause for a minute to pay homage to the killed officers as if the Narendra Modi government expects people to die in the defence of its "muddle-headed policy" in the Valley.