4 militants killed in Rajouri encounter: Police

Jammu, Mar 28: Four militants were killed on Wednesday in a gunfight with forces personnel in the Sunderbani area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district, Director General of Police SP Vaid said.
As per reports, some militants, who had infiltrated from across the LoC four-five days back in Rajouri sector, were traced to be in Sunderbani after days of combing operations, the police said.
According to locals, a contact with militants was established near Rewarian Tala village at 7.30 am, 1 km from Sunderbani town, from where they had purchased some food items on Tuesday.
J&K Director General of Police SP Vaid confirmed killing of four militants. “It was a group recently infiltrated from LoC,” he tweeted.
Amid the ongoing encounter between the security forces and the militants, the authorities refuted reports of a militant attack at a CRPF camp, but ordered closure of all educational institutions in the tehsil as a precautionary measure.
“An encounter has broken out between Nowshera-Sunderbani belt after a group of infiltrator militants were intercepted by the security forces today,” J&K Director General of Police S P Vaid told PTI earlier.
He refuted reports of a militant attack by the militants terming them as “totally false”.
Rajouri SSP Yougal Manhas said three bags of ammunition and explosives were recovered from outside a CRPF camp in Sunderbani.
As per the reports, a security guard manning the gate of a CRPF camp at Sodra in Sunderbani area fired some warning shots and raised the alarm after he detected some suspicious movement near the paramilitary camp.
Denying reports of an attack on the CRPF camp, CRPF PRO Ashish Kumar Jha said there was such attack on the paramilitary force camp in Sunderbani.
He said the alert troops had detected some suspicious movement and had fired some warning shots.
Rajouri DC Shahid Iqbal Choudary ordered the closure of all the educational institutions in Sunderbani sector in wake of the search operation.
“The schools shall remain closed in the Sunderbani division today as a precautionary measure,” he said.
Last night, two militants had entered into the house of one Bushan Kumar Sharma in Bunpori-Yoginallah area in Sunderbani and had forced them to prepare food, which they had taken away along with themselves, the reports said. (With PTI inputs)