An encounter is ongoing between terrorists and security forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district. Three militants, including scholar-turned-terrorist Manan Wani, are believed to have been trapped in an encounter at Handwara in frontier district of north Kashmir, officials said on Thursday.
Giving details emerging from the encounter site, which is taking place at Satgund in Handwara, police and other security forces cordoned off a village following intelligence inputs about the presence of Wani along with two others, they said.
According to sources, internet services have been suspended in the area, and all educational institutions in Handwara have been instructed to be closed on Thursday following the cordon and search operation.
Police were making repeated announcements on the public address system appealing to the militants to surrender, officials said. There was a lull in firing at around 9 am, prompting the police to initiate a search operation at the encounter site, but the same had to be suspended after firing resumed in 15 minutes.
