TIL Desk/National/J&K/ Three militants were killed in an encounter with security forces after they attacked an army camp in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district, the army said.
The militants opened fire on an army camp at Langate in Kupwara district around 5 am, which was retaliated by the alert jawans, an army official said. After repulsing the attack, the security forces launched a search operation in the area, during which the militants fired upon them, leading to an encounter.
An army spokesperson said that the arms, maps, medicines and, food items were recovered from the militants that were killed. The medicines had “Pakistani markings” on them, suggesting that the militants came from across the border. Other items recovered from the bodies are still being inspected, he said.
The firing comes at a time when the army foiled three infiltration bids assisted by Pakistani posts along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir. “Three infiltration bids were foiled in two separate sectors on the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir on the intervening night of October 5-6,” an army official said.
