Militants Kill two policemen in Rajouri sector of J-K
Rajouri: Two police personnel, a constable and a Special Police Officer (SPO), were killed in an encounter between the police and the militants in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district on Wednesday
night. Acting on a tip off, a team of security officers had launched a massive
manhunt on Wednesday night to apprehend militants, believed to be three in number,
who had taken shelter in maize crops of Tota Morha-Dorimal village in Thanna Mandi.
Two of the police officials lost their lives during a brief encounter. "When we
established contact with the militants, the firing started in which two of our
soldiers got killed. We carried our anti-militant search operation the entire
night," said Shafkat Wattali, Superintendent of Police of Rajouri. The deceased
have been identified as constable Aijaz Ahmed and SPO Khan Mohammad.
