Three officers, two from the Army and one from the Jammu and Kashmir police, were killed during an anti-militancy operation in Anantnag district on Wednesday. Security forces killed one more militant during the operation launched on Tuesday in Rajouri, taking the toll to two.
A joint team of security forces, comprising the Army and police personnel, came under a heavy fire from militants who had positioned themselves at vantage points and took cover behind a thick foliage at the Gadool hamlet of Anantnag’s Kokernag area in the afternoon.
