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After A Long Anxious Night, We Have This Heart-Breaking News About Handwara Encounter

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Terribly sad to report the news from Handwara, two senior army officers- a major and a colonel-were among five security personnel killed during an encounter in J&K’s District.

Two army soldiers and a police officer were also lost their lives as the security personnel came under huge fire.

Two terrorists were also killed during the encounter that started near 3:30 pm on Saturday after they took terrorist hostages inside a home in Handwara.

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“Based on the intelligence input that terrorists were taking the civilian inmates of a house in Changimulla, (in the) Handwara (area) of Kupwara district, hostage, a joint operation was launch by Army and JK Police. A team comprising of five Army and JK Police personnel entered the target area occupied by the terrorists to evacuate the civ (civilians),” The statement read.
“The team of Army and JK Police entered the TGT (target) area and successfully extricated the civ. However, during the process, the team was subjected to a heavy volume of fire by the terrorists,” it added.
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