Terrorists blow up railway track in Pulwama District
Srinagar: Terrorists triggered off an explosive device in Jammu and
Kashmir's Pulwama district, damaging two to three feet of railway track on the Qazigund-Baramulla route. No casualties were reported in the blast that took place
on Thursday night, around 40 kilometers from Srinagar. It has been reported that
movement of other trains running on the same route have been affected by the blast.
"Around 10 p.m. last evening (on Thursday), militants carried out an IED blast
blowing off two to three meters of the rail track at Gulbugh village near Kakapora
town of Pulwama district," said a senior police official. "Restoration work started
this morning and rail traffic would resume soon," he added. This 18-kilometre
line is the valley's link to Srinagar and the other important places in the region.
Meanwhile, security personnel gunned down two militants in Rajouri district. Another
fierce encounter between terrorists and security forces was continuing in the Kalakote
area, around 200 kilometers north of Jammu. Two Laskar-e-Taiba militants were
killed earlier on March 27 during a fierce gun battle with police and security
forces in Baji Mahal forest of Kalakote in Rajouri district here. It has been
reported that over the last three days, around eight terrorists have been killed
in the region. Earlier on February 15, the security forces gunned down a top militant
of Hizbul Mujahideen terror outfit after a prolonged encounter at Bagla Forest
of Triyath region in Rajouri district.
