Srinagar:
Security forces gunned down two terrorists during an encounter in Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir this morning. The meeting began after security forces launched an anti-terrorist operation in the Halkan Gali area.
Earlier in the morning, an encounter broke out in Khaynar area of Srinagar during a cordon and search operation by a joint team of police and security forces.
The anti-terrorist operations follow a terrorist attack on two migrant workers a day earlier. The two men from Uttar Pradesh were shot at in Budgam district – the fourth time there has been a targeted attack on migrants in the Kashmir Valley in the past two weeks.
The deadliest attack took place on October 20, when seven people – including a local doctor and two workers from Bihar – were shot dead by terrorists at a tunnel construction site in Ganderbal district.
National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah, whose son Omar Abdullah took charge as chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir last month, said the spate of terror attacks could be an attempt to destabilize the newly formed government and demanded an independent probe .
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