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NEW DELHI: Seven terrorists were neutralised by security forces on Friday in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian and Tral regions in two separate encounters that ended today morning.
Five terrorists who took refuge in a mosque in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian were gunned down in an overnight encounter by security forces, even as two ultras were gunned down in Pulwama district's Tral region.
The encounter in Shopian town broke out on Thursday evening and has now turned into a stand-off, police said, adding three militants were killed and four security forces personnel injured.
In a tweet, the police had said that the brother of the holed up terrorist and local Imamsahab were sent inside the mosque to persuade the terrorists to surrender.
In an earlier tweet, the police had said that the chief of terror outfit Ansar Ghazwatul Hind was among those trapped.
In a separate encounter in the Tral area of Pulwama on Friday morning, two militants were gunned down by security personnel, the police added.
One of the militants was identified as AGuH chief terrorist Imtiyaz Shah, said the Kashmir Police.
An encounter started between terrorists and security forces at Nowbugh in the Tral area of Awantipora district in Jammu and Kashmir on Friday morning.
Kashmir Zone Police had informed in a tweet earlier that the police and security forces are carrying out the operation.
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