Kupwara

"Avalanche with high danger level is likely to occur above 2,000 metres of Bandipora and Kupwara districts in the next 24 hours

Security forces seized a huge cache of arms and ammunition from a house in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Sunday. The arms cache was recovered from the house of one Rafaqat Hussain Shah, a resident of Panjtaran in Karnah area of north Kashmir's Kupwara, in a cordon-and-search operation last night, a police spokesperson said. During search, one pistol, two pistol magazines, 16 pistol rounds, two hand grenades, two detonators, and other incriminating materials were recovered from the said house, the spokesperson said. In connection with the seizure, a case under relevant sections of law has been registered and further investigation is in progress, he said.

The infiltration bid was foiled along the Line of Control (LoC) in the Kupwara district of Kashmir as security forces killed two terrorists and recovered a huge cache of arms and ammunition

While two terrorists were killed in Kupwara as many were eliminated in Kulgam, they said, adding some more terrorists are hiding and operation was still underway in both the areas

Two Lashkar-e-Taiba militants, including one Pakistani national, were killed by the security forces in Kupwara encounter

Two Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) militants were arrested in a joint operation by the security forces in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday

Security forces averted a militant attack by detecting an improvised explosive device (IED) in Jammu and Kashmir's Kupwara district on Monday morning, police said

The Army has apprehended three suspected militants during a search operation in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir

Showket Ahmed Malik, a resident of Handwara town in Kupwara district, fled the quarantine centre on Sunday

Friday's encounter is the third in Kupwara district since Thursday in which a total of seven militants have been killed so far

After being challenged, the suspected militants opened fire on the forces, triggering off an encounter

The army chief also reviewed the overall security situation in the Kashmir Valley