Srinagar: One civilian and a Militant were killed in a gunfight with the security forces on Saturday in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian district, police said.
Security forces started a cordon and search operation in a village of Shopian following information about a group of militants hiding in the village.
“As the cordon around the hiding militants was tightened, they fired at the surrounding security forces triggering an encounter in which two militants were killed,” said a senior police official, adding the operation was going on.
The bodies were recovered on Sunday and one of them turned out to be a civilian identified as Shahid Ahmad Mir.
Police sources said the civilian’s body was handed over to the family.
The other person killed in the gunfight was a Kashmiri militant, Muhammad Irfan Bhat.
Police said a couple of militants managed to escape during the encounter.
