Terrorists hiding in Rebin Chattargam area of South Kashmir’s District Shopian managed to escape from the encounter site taking advantage of the residential area. According to information received from police sources, after the encounter started in the morning, when the security personnel were evacuating the people living in the adjoining houses, only then these terrorists managed to break the siege of the security forces by passing through the adjoining houses. Security forces have launched a search operation in the area in search of terrorists.
The security forces claim that the terrorists have not gone far yet. They may have left this locality and hid in another neighborhood adjacent to it. Search for him is going on. The whole area is being cordoned off. There is also a blockade on all the exits. According to police sources, it was only after the information that two to three terrorists were hiding in the area, the SOG personnel of Jammu and Kashmir Police along with the army started this operation. The encounter between security forces and terrorists started on Monday night.
On the basis of information received from the sources, SOG personnel along with the army battalion reached Rebin Chattargam area of Shopian at around 11.30 pm on Monday and started searching for the terrorists. When these terrorists hiding in a house saw the security forces coming near them, they started firing on the security forces. The security forces also retaliated.