Srinagar: Militants on Tuesday morning gave slip to security forces before firing some gun shots in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district, some 30 kms from state’s summer capital Srinagar.
Official sources said acting on a tip off, a joint team of army’s 42 and Special Group of Police (SOG) laid a cordoned off Lam, Tral area of Awantipora.
The joint team intensified searches and the militants believed to be in two numbers fired some shots before fleeing from the spot, a top police official told INS over phone.
He added that the militants ‘probably escaped’ from the area. The cordon and search in the area was going on when last reports came in. (INS)
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