One Pakistani person was killed while two Indian soldiers were injured after a gunfight broke out in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district on Saturday, the Army said.
“There has been exchange of fire with unidentified personnel on a forward post in Kamkari, Macchal Sector on the line of control,” the Indian Army’s Chinar Corps said in a post on X.
The operation is underway.
This is the fourth such gunfight in Kupwara in the last one month.
Earlier on Wednesday, a suspected militant was killed and a non-commissioned officer was injured during a gunfight in the district.
In a post on X, the Army said the exchange was triggered after it launched a joint search operation along with Jammu and Kashmir Police based on a specific input regarding the presence of terrorists on Tuesday.
On July 18, two suspected militants were killed by the security forces in the Kupwara’s Keran sector.
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