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Contact established with terrorists, encounter underway in J-K’s Udhampur: Army

Encounter in Udhampur: The encounter took place during a joint operation by the Army and police in Bihali area of Basantgarh.

The encounter broke out in a forested area of Jammu and Kashmir's Udhampur district on Thursday morning. (File Photo/AP)

Udhampur Terrorist Encounter: An encounter has broken out between security forces and militants on Thursday morning at Basantgarh in Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur district.

The Army’s White Knight Corps said in a post on social media that “Operation Bihali” is underway. “Based on specific intelligence, a joint operation was launched by the Indian Army and Jammu & Kashmir Police in Bihali area of Basantgarh. Contact has been established with terrorists. The operation is in progress,” it said.

Security forces in Jammu and Kashmir have stepped up operations against terrorists and their support network in the Union Territory in the aftermath of the April 22 attack on tourists in Pahalgam.

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Terrorists from Pakistan had opened fire at a meadow in the south Kashmir tourist destination on April 22, killing 25 tourists and one local man.

There have been a number of encounters in J&K in the two months since then as security forces searched for the perpetrators and sought to clamp down on militant activity.

On Sunday, in a major breakthrough in the Pahalgam investigation, two local men who had allegedly given shelter to the terrorists involved in the attack were arrested. The NIA also learnt that the all three gunmen at Pahalgam were from Pakistan.

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