The search operation was on in the area, the official said.
Security forces launched a cordon-and-search operation in Samboora village of Pampore area following information about the presence of some terrorists there.
One policeman was killed and three securitymen were injured on Monday in a fierce gunfight with a group of holed up militants in south Kashmir's Tral in Pulwama district.
Security forces on Tuesday shot dead one of the two militants holed up in a house in Pulwama district of south Kashmir.
The gunfight started Friday morning after police and counter insurgency Rashtriya Rifles (RR) surrounded a house in Khrew village, nearly 20 km from Srinagar, acting on specific information. The terrorists opened fire on security forces when the latter challenged them to surrender. Two terrorists were killed in the subsequent gunfight
In a new turn to the infamous Shopian rape-and-murder case, the gynaecologist, who was part of the team that conducted the second autopsy of the two women, has told the Central Bureau of Investigation that she did not collect vaginal swabs from the victims.
Five security force personnel were among six people injured in a grenade attack by militants in south Kashmir's Pulwama district on Wednesday. Militants hurled a grenade at a party of security force personnel at around 5.30 pm in Pohu area wounding six, the police said.
'Killed #terrorist identified as Aqib Mustaq Bhat of #Pulwama (A category). He initially worked for HM #terror outfit, nowadays he had been working with TRF. #Killer of late Sanjay Sharma #neutralised,' Kumar tweeted.
The encounter took place at Qasbayar area of the south Kashmir district.
Two terrorists of the Hizbul Mujaheedin were gunned down by the security forces in south Kashmir's Pulwama district near Srinagar late on Saturday.
As many as 160 terrorists were killed and 102 arrested in Jammu and Kashmir in 2019.
Two army personnel sustained minor injuries.
"The killing of Abdul Rehman alias Fauji Bhai alias Fauji Baba, a Pakistani national, is a big success for security forces as he was a master in assembling improvised explosive devices for JeM," Inspector General of Police Vijay Kumar told reporters in Srinagar.
Police and security forces have rushed to the spot.
The gunfight is going on and further details were awaited.
'It is India's first vehicle that can be driven on road, marshy terrain and in water as well.'
After hearing the news of his death, hundreds of Muslims gathered at his residence to perform his last rites.
Nearly a dozen grenade attacks have taken place in the valley since Thursday.
Pakistan has expressed condolences over the deaths of tourists in a terror attack in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, that killed 26 people. The Foreign Office spokesperson said Pakistan is concerned at the loss of tourists' lives and wished the injured a speedy recovery. The attack, claimed by The Resistance Front (TRF), a proxy of the banned Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), is the deadliest in the Valley since the Pulwama strike in 2019.
The anti-terror operation is still on.
The nomination papers of 35 candidates including that of jailed separatist Sarjan Barkati were on Wednesday rejected during scrutiny for the first phase of assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir, leaving 244 contestants in the fray.
Police said two army soldiers of 42 Rashtriya Rifles who were injured in the militant attack were evacuated to a hospital for treatment.
Abu Hanzala managed to escape after at least two other terrorists attacked the police escort team at SMHS Hospital, killing two cops.
Three days before the area goes to polls, suspected militants gunned down three persons including a sarpanch, his son and a village headman in two adjoining villages of south Kashmir Tral in Pulwama district.
The agency has re-registered the case and formed a team to investigate the terror strike.
The bodies of two terrorists had been recovered on Sunday.
Pakistani troops violated ceasefire by firing mortar shells and small arms along the LoC in Poonch around 8 am on Monday.
Meanwhile, Pakistan said the terrorist attack in Pulwama district is "a matter of grave concern" even as it strongly rejected Indian media and government's allegations of the country's link to the strike "without" probe.
Acting on a credible input about the presence of terrorists in Bijbehara area of the south Kashmir district, security forces launched a cordon and search operation on Tuesday morning.
Two terrorists believed to be behind Sunday's killing of a Kashmiri Pandit were gunned down early on Tuesday in an encounter with security forces inside a mosque in south Kashmir's Pulwama district. An Indian Army jawan was also killed.
Three militants of the Hizbul Mujaheedin outfit were killed in a fierce encounter in south Kashmir's Tral area in Pulwama district on Thursday evening.
Hardline Hurriyat Conference leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani was on Thursday placed under house arrest, a day ahead of his scheduled visit to Tral town in south Kashmir Pulwama district.
Suspected militants late on Monday evening shot dead a village sarpanch in south Kashmir's Pulwama district.
Terrorists opened fire at a popular tourist spot near Kashmir's Pahalgam town on Tuesday afternoon, killing 26 people, mostly holidayers from other states, in what is the deadliest attack in the Valley since the Pulwama strike in 2019.
Terror outfits in Jammu and Kashmir are now constructing elaborately-designed underground bunkers deep inside thick forests and elevated ridges instead of taking shelter in local houses, officials said. This tactical shift, fuelled by eroding local support, presents a new challenge to the Army and other security forces.
An A+++ category terrorist, Dujana had taken over the reins of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba in the Kashmir Valley after the group's divisional commander Abu Qassim was killed in 2013.
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