Early on Wednesday, September 13, Colonel Manpreet Singh, commanding officer of 19 Rashtriya Rifles, Major Ashish Dhonack, and Deputy Superintendent Humayun Bhat were killed in a gunfight with terrorists in Anantnag district.
On Thursday, the Jammu and Kashmir police said it had 'encircled' two Lashkar-e-Tayiba terrorists responsible for the murders.
IMAGE: Security personnel monitor the hills where the terrorists are hiding in Kokernag, Anantnag district, here, below. All Photographs: ANI Photo
A terrorist was killed in an encounter with security forces on Wednesday, raising the death toll during an ongoing three-day search operation in a remote village in Rajouri district to three.
IMAGE: Security personnel at the site where an encounter took place between security forces and terrorists in Rajouri, here and below.
Photographs curated by Anant Salvi/Rediff.com
Feature Presentation: Aslam Hunani/Rediff.com
