Srinagar, June 28: Two officers have sustained bullet injuries in ongoing encounter that broke out in Maloora HMT area of Srinagar outskirts.
The encounter is in progress while joint forces have sealed the area. Eyewitnesses said that intermittent firing is going on.
They said amid gunshots reverberating in the atmosphere, police evacuated people in the area to safer places.
Sources told that two officers sustained bullet injuries and have been shifted to hospital for treatment.
The inured troopers have been identified as *DySp Satender Kumar of 21 Battalion, Sub-Inspector Shivam Kumar of 28 Battalion CRPF presently attached with Quick Reaction Team.*
The encounter was in progress till the filing of this report.
(KNT)
