‘Significant success’, says Army after three militants killed in Baramulla encounter
The encounter began in Kreeri on Friday after a joint team of security forces received intel about the presence of militants in the area.
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Security personnel during an encounter with militants at Chak Tapper Kreeri Pattan area, in Baramulla district, Jammu and Kashmir, on Saturday. (Photo: PTI)Three unidentified militants were killed in a gunfight in Kreeri in North Kashmir’s Baramulla Saturday in an operation that the Army termed as a “significant success” and a “major disruption of Pakistan’s nefarious designs” ahead of the Assembly polls.
A joint team of J&K Police, Army’s 29 Rashtriya Rifles (RR) and paramilitary forces launched a cordon and search operation at Kreeri’s Chak-e-Tapper village Friday based on specific intelligence inputs pointing to the presence of militants in the area.
Significantly, The operation came hours before Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed an election meeting at Doda, Jammu, ahead of the election.
As the joint team of forces were cordoning off the area, the hiding militants opened fire, which prompted the security team to retaliate, Brigadier Sanjay Kannoth, the commander of the Army’s 10 Sector RR, said at a press briefing later in the evening.
“For some time, we have been receiving inputs about the movement of unidentified terrorists in the general area of Kreeri. Yesterday on 13th September, we received a specific intelligence input about the movement of some unidentified terrorist in Chak-e-Tapper,” the officer said.
A joint team of the Army, the J&K Police and its Special Operations Group and the Sashastra Seema Bal were dispatched, he said.
“When our parties and columns were in the process of establishing a cordon, (the) terrorists hiding in a disused building opened a heavy volume of fire,” he said. “The militants continued to open a heavy volume of fire throughout the night.”
The operation continued into the morning when the troops “in a professional manner engaged the terrorists and neutralised them,” he said, adding that “war like stores” have been recovered from the militants.
According to Brigadier Kanooth, the operation “assumes significance” as the J&K is bracing for the assembly polls that start on September 18.
The three slain militants are yet to be identified, he told the media.
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