By Arun Sharma
An overnight gunbattle in Jammu & Kashmir’s Kathua district ended Wednesday after a second militant who was holed up in a village was killed and a CRPF jawan lost his life, police said.
Hours later, in Doda district’s Kota Top area near Gandoh, a special police officer was injured after a joint team of police and paramilitary forces came under fire from militants — the fourth such incident in Jammu since Sunday, when a pilgrim bus was attacked.
This team had launched a search operation in the area after militants targeted a joint police and Army outpost in Doda’s tourist spot of Chattergala on Tuesday night, injuring five soldiers and a special police officer.
The Kota Top gunbattle was on at press time and reinforcements were rushed to the area. It was unclear if the militants at Kota Top were those who had attacked the Chattergala outpost. While the road distance between the two places is 100 km, it can be covered by a 7-8 hour trek through mountainous forests, said sources.
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