Jammu, September 12: Another militant was killed by security forces in the ongoing gunfight at the mini-secretariat building near the 93 Brigade Headquarters at Allah Pir Mohalla in Poonch town.
With this the number of militants killed in the operation that started on Sunday morning has risen to four.
“The operation is still in progress. We have retrieved the body of another terrorist from the old house. On Sunday, the body of a terrorist was recovered from the same house. Two terrorists were killed in the mini-secretariat building. There is possibility that another terrorist might be holed up inside the building. Our Special Operation Group (SOG) personnel, along with army jawans, have moved closer to the building to end the operation,” Jhonny William, DIG, Rajouri-Poonch Police Range told The Tribune.
He said Director General of Police K Rajendra Kumar is personally supervising the operation as he rushed to Poonch town on Monday morning. The DGP also visited the family of slain policeman Rajinder Kumar who was killed in the gun fight on Sunday.
“The building and adjacent areas were cordoned off and the holed-up terrorists, if any, have no way to escape,” the police officer said.
The police said the gun fight erupted again at the under-construction mini-secretariat building around 6.30 am after the remaining militants, one or two in number, opened fire on the security personnel who were sanitising the area.
The police said while carrying out room-to-room searches in the old house, security forces found the body of a militant, taking the toll of killed militants since Sunday to four. However, only two bodies have been recovered so far.
On Sunday, a policeman was killed while five others—two police officials, a civilian and two soldiers—were injured. The army has been using a drone to ascertain the exact location of militants to pin them down inside the building.
