Kupwara encounter: Gunner shows exceptional courage in fending off terrorists

However, the whiplash of the impact made him fall down. He immediately recovered and fired back to kill the two terrorists. Running out of ammunition he moved out of his bunker and tried to pick the weapon of the slain terrorists to engage the third. The third terrorist fired and injured him thus managing to escape. “When I saw terrorists approaching me while firing, I took position, fired at them and killed two terrorists,” new agency ANI quoted Rishi Kumar as saying.

Soon after the encounter, a mob started pelting stones at the security forces, leading to a clash in which a 75-year-old civilian was killed due to a bullet injury.

In the gunfight, Captain Ayush Yadav, Subedar Bhoop Singh Gujjar and Naik B Venkata Ramanna were killed. Five other soldiers were injured and they were airlifted to Army’s 92 Base Hospital in Srinagar.

The troops recovered three AK rifles which indicated that there was a third terrorist. “We have recovered three AK rifles, nine magazines, 156 AK rounds, one Chinese pistol, three UBGL grenades, three hand grenades, two radio sets, two GPS devices and a smartphone from the slain terrorists,” an official said. The official, on the condition of anonymity, said the attackers seemed to be foreigners but their identity was being ascertained.