This Article is From Feb 20, 2010

Two encounters, 1 Militant Killed, 2 Hiding

Sopore: Two militants are holed up in a village in Sopore, Jammu and Kashmir.

Exchange of fire is on with security forces.

A Hizbul district commander was killed in an earlier encounter in Jammu's Reasi district in which two special police officers were injured, police said on Saturday.

Acting on a tip off, troops cordoned off an area in Arnaf in the district, 130 kms from here, late night on Friday.

Militants fired on a party of Rashtriya Rifles troops who retaliated.

In the encounter, a Pakistani militant Abu Bakr was killed and an AK rifle and two grenades were recovered from him.

In the encounter, two SPOs Ashraf and Murtaza were injured.

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