Srinagar: A deputy superintendent of police (DSP), an Army jawan and three militants were killed and two Army officers wounded in a gunfight in Turigam village of Jammu and Kashmir’s southern Kulgam district on Sunday.
The police said that the identities of the slain militants are being ascertained but local sources said that they belonged to the Jaish-e-Muhammad, the terror group involved in the February 14 suicide attack on a convoy of Central Reserve Police Force in J&K’s Pulwama district, leaving 49 jawans killed and several others injured.
The police officials said that the DSP of the counterinsurgency Special Operations Group of the J&K police Aman Kumar Thakur was critically injured while “leading from the front” as fighting broke out between a group of militants holed up in Turigam village and the security forces during a cordon-and-search operation around Noon on Sunday.
He was hit on the head in a barrage of gunfire from militants and was rushed to a nearby hospital where doctors declared him dead on arrival.
A 2011 batch KPS Officer Mr Thakur was a resident of Gogla village of J&K’s eastern Doda district.
