J&K encounters: 3 jawans,12 militants killed in Anantnag, Shopian districts

In a major offensive in the recent times, security forces on Sunday gunned down 13 militants, including those responsible for the brutal killing of Lieutenant Umar Fayaz, in three counter-insurgency operations that also claimed the lives of three Army jawans and four civilians in Anantnag and Shopian districts of Jammu and Kashmir.

The operations, which have rendered a severe blow to terror groups in Kashmir Valley, were launched in the two districts on Saturday night and continued till late Sunday afternoon.

One militant was killed and another arrested in Dialgam of South Kashmir's Anantnag district, while seven terrorists were gunned