Srinagar, June 22: Four Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militants and a CRPF jawan were killed and three securitymen were injured in two separate encounters in Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday. Two LeT militants and a CRPF jawan were killed while two policemen and a CRPF personnel were injured in a five-hour long fierce gunbattle in Chaterhama-Burzahama area on the Srinagar-Ganderbal road, a spokesman said. The encounter broke out around 9:00 am when a joint search party of 137th Battalion CRPF and local police was fired upon by militants hiding in a house in the locality, CRPF spokesman P Tripathy said. In the ensuing gunbattle, two unidentified militant and a CRPF jawan were killed while a CRPF jawan and two police personnel were injured. The deceased CRPF jawan was identified as K C Sahu, a resident of Orissa. The injured jawan, G K Sharma, suffered a bullet injury on his shoulder and was admitted to a hospital. In another operation, two militants of Pakistan-based LeT outfit were killed in a gunbattle at Nariwan village in Shopian district this morning, Deputy Inspector General of Police, South Kashmir, Muneer Khan said. Following a tip-off, police and Army personnel cordoned off the area and came under fire from hiding militants. Two militants were killed in the retaliatory action and two weapons were recovered from their possession, Khan said.
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