Anantnag Encounter: 100-hour-long gunfight between J-K forces, and terrorists enters 5th day
Anantnag has entered its fifth day. Thousands of soldiers, including paracommandos, are still engaged in a never-ending shootout deep inside the forested Gadol area. The terrorists are using the dangerous terrain and forest cover to keep the forces at bay and prolong the encounter.
In an effort to neutralize the terrorists, three officers—two from the Army and one from the police—were killed in the encounter during the battle that has now lasted more than 100 hours. The death toll in the Anantnag encounter has climbed to four after police found the body of one more missing soldier on Friday. The other slain senior Army officers and the DSP were identified as Colonel Manpreet Singh, Major Ashish Dhonak, and Humayun Bhat.
The military shot hundreds of motor shells and rockets over the course of the last 100 hours, used high-tech weapons to target suspected terrorist hideouts, and used sophisticated drones to drop explosives. The encounter broke out on Wednesday, September 13, and the ongoing gunfight between a combined team of security personnel from the Army and the Jammu and Kashmir Police and terrorists in the Kokernag area of the Anantnag district. The security forces are also being helped with quadcopters and drones in their effort to locate the terrorists who are holed up in the Kokernag area.
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