Jammu, August 11

An encounter took place between security forces and terrorists in a remote forest in Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir early on Sunday, officials said.

The gunfight took place for a brief period when police assisted by army and paramilitary forces launched a search operation in Nownatta, Naageni Peyaas and adjoining areas following information about movement of terrorists, they said.

The latest encounter comes a day after two army personnel — Havildar Dipak Kumar Yadav and Lance Naik Praveen Sharma — were killed and six others, including two civilians, were injured in a fierce gunfight in Kokernag woods in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district.