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The militants turned down the offer to surrender and opened firing and lobbed a grenade on the security forces, the official said.

The drone attack is stated to have taken place around 3 a.m. on Monday (April 19) on a rebel camp between Bothalanka and Palagudem in Bijapur district in Bastar forest areas of Chhattisgarh.

Tesfaye said a further 43 suspected OLA rebels and their accomplices were also arrested during recent military operations.

Police said the slain militants were responsible for the killing of Havaldar Mohammad Saleem AKhoon outside his residence at Goriwan in Bijbehara area on Friday.

Security forces were engaged in an exchange of fire with militants in Hadipora area of south Kashmir's Shopian districts. One militant was killed on Saturday.

Earlier, the Kashmir Zone Police had said that efforts were being made to get two militants hiding inside a mosque in Shopian after an overnight encounter to surrender.

The encounter between security forces and terrorists started in Shopian on Thursday where terrorists are holed up inside a mosque.

Security forces launched a cordon and search operation in Manihal area of the district following information about presence of militants there.

The militants opened fire on security forces when they were conducting a search and cordon operation on Wednesday in Kandipora.

Srinagar-Leh highway has been closed for nearly two months due to snow.

Forty CRPF personnel were killed in the terrorist attack carried out by Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammad in Pulwama on February 14, 2019.

According to the police, a 9mm pistol was recovered from the Naxal's possession. The encounter two jawans of the 16th battalion of Chhattisgarh Armed Force (CAF) have been injured in an IED (Improvised explosive device) blast

The encounter took place in the Kreeri area after the security forces cordoned off the area and launched a search operation on the basis of specific information about the presence of terrorists.

The incident took place in Gajalmamudi area of Swabhiman Anchal during an exchange of fire between the Maoists and the Special Operations Group (SOG), said DGP Abhay.

The security forces have seized one AK rifle and two pistols from the encounter site.

The Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG), Kolhan Range said that after several rounds of firing, the Naxals fled deep inside the forest.

The ultras opened fire on the security forces at Khushipora in Parimpora area, a police official said.

The militants made an abortive bid during the night to infiltrate into the Indian side of the LoC in Machil sector in north Kashmir's Kupwara district.

Acting on specific information about the presence of militants in Rangreth near the old airfield here, the security forces launched a cordon and search operation in the area, a police official said.

Activists have long complained of a campaign of kidnappings and killings to intimidate them into halting demonstrations.