A policeman was killed and five security men were injured in an ongoing gunfight that raged in a Srinagar’s congested locality on Sunday morning.
The gunfight erupted in Batamaloo locality days ahead of Independence Day, when Srinagar is on a high alert.
The gunfight started around 4 am when joint teams of the J&K Police and CRPF launched a cordon and search operation at Batamaloo after inputs about presence of two to three militants.
“The CASO turned into a gunfight when hiding militants fired indiscriminately upon the security forces. In the initial gunfight, three policemen and equal number of the CRPF were injured. One of the injured policemen later succumbed to injuries,” a senior security officer said.
The operation in the congested locality is still under way.
The gunfight is taking place close to the same spot where a CRPF man was killed and another was injured in a militant attack on July 24.
