Three Army men of an elite counter-insurgency unit were killed in an ongoing operation in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kulgam district, officials said.
They said the encounter started between militants and joint forces in the high reaches of the Halan forest area of Kulgam on Friday, leaving three jawans critically wounded. The injured were shifted to the Army’s Srinagar-based 92 hospital, where they succumbed to their injuries.
“On specific inputs regarding the presence of terrorists on the higher reaches of Halan in Kulgam, operations were launched by Security Forces on August 4. In exchange for firing with terrorists, three personnel sustained injuries and later succumbed, the Army said in a tweet.
The identity of the slain soldiers couldn’t be established immediately.
The Army said search operations are still continuing in the area.
Sources said additional forces were rushed to the area to trace the militants.
The gunfight erupted a day after an army soldier, Javaid Ahmad Wani, who went missing from his native Kulgam district while he was on leave, was recovered by police.
The police didn’t divulge more as to how the soldier was recovered.
