Finally the security forces on Thursday tasted the success which had eluded them for past three days in fierce and still raging Mendhar encounter, and gunned down two dreaded foreign terrorists. Three more security personnel, however, sustained splinter injuries in the ongoing gun-battle.
The Army on Tuesday had lost one Major Amit K. Thenge while six other Army personnel including commanding officer of 37 RR Col. Ajay Katoch in this encounter which began on Monday night in the thick Beri Rakh forests of Mendhar tehsil in Poonch district.
Two militants were on Thursday gunned down by the security forces while three cops sustained splinter injuries in the ongoing gun-battle, which started on Tuesday evening, in Mendhar tehsil of Poonch district.
“Two bodies of militants have been recovered from Beri Rakh forest in Mendhar, where gunbattle between security forces and militants is still going on,” defence sources maintained. Intermittent firing was still on with the militants, who were trying every possible way to break the tight cordon of Army, police and CRPF, the sources added.
Heavy exchange of fire continued between the militants and security forces throughout the night last night. Body of one of the militants was recovered from the encounter site in the morning.
After heavy exchange of fire, the forces gunned down second ultra too.
General officer commanding “White Knight” Corps Lt. Gen. Rameshwar Roy and BGS media XVI Corps Brigadier Satish Dua rushed to the encounter site in the morning. The officers carried reconnaissance of the forest area where the militants were hiding and returned after assessing situation.