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On Thursday, another jawan died in the ongoing encounter between terrorists and security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district. This has taken the number of total Army personnel killed since Wednesday to five.     #J&K #Rajouri #LeT #J&KEncounter #JammuAndKashmir                 ~PR.151~ED.102~

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00:00 On Thursday, another jawan died in the encounter between terrorists and security forces in

00:14 Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district.

00:17 This has taken the number of total army personnel killed since Wednesday to five.

00:22 On Wednesday, four army personnel were killed which included two captains and two jawans.

00:29 The slain army personnel have been identified as Captain M. V. Pranjal, Captain Shubham

00:33 Gupta, Havildar Abdul Majid, Lance Naik, Sanjay Bisht and Paratrooper Sachin Laur.

00:40 Three others were injured in the incident and they were later shifted to the army's

00:44 command hospital in Udhampur.

00:47 Earlier in the day, two terrorists, a top Lashkar-e-Taiba or LAT commander and his associate

00:53 were also killed in the encounter.

00:55 According to security officials, the LAT commander, identified by the code name Kadi, had been

01:01 active in the Rajouri-Poonch region with his group for the past year.

01:06 Officials reported that he was gunned down in a fierce gun battle in the Bajimal area

01:10 of Dharamsal in the Rajouri district.

01:13 He was also believed to be the mastermind behind the terrorist attack in Dangri and

01:17 Kandi.

01:18 He was deployed in the area to revive terror activities in the region.

01:22 Kadi's associate has also been killed in the encounter and their mortal remains have

01:27 been retrieved by security officials.

01:31 The police said that the encounter started on Wednesday between terrorists and joint

01:35 forces of the army and the J&K police in the Bajimal area of Dharamsal following a cordon

01:40 and search operation.

01:42 Police said that four army personnel, including two captains, were killed and three others

01:47 were injured during the fighting in Rajouri district.

01:50 They added that a major and two jawans were among the injured army personnel and they

01:55 were shifted to the Army's command hospital in Udhampur.

01:58 The firing in the region of Rajouri district resumed on Thursday morning following an overnight

02:03 halt.

02:04 The highly forested region was cordoned off with the introduction of additional security

02:08 forces to ensure terrorists involved in the encounter failed to escape.

02:13 According to reports, Kadi and his associate were killed in the ongoing encounter in the

02:17 Kalakoti area of Rajouri.

02:19 Kadi is believed to be the mastermind of Dhangri and Kandi twin attacks in which seven civilians

02:24 were killed and 14 others were injured.

02:26 As per reports, he was an expert in IEDs, hiding in and operating from caves and was

02:32 also a trained sniper.

02:34 Former Chief Minister of J&K and PDP chief Mehbooba Mafdi addressed the situation in

02:39 Rajouri.

02:40 "We would like to say that the four captains who were killed yesterday, they were martyred.

02:46 On one hand, BJP claims that the situation in J&K is fine and militancy has ended.

02:54 On the other hand, soldiers are being martyred.

02:57 On the other hand, people of Kashmir have been made to live in the name of militancy.

03:02 They are being held and monitored every day.

03:05 There is surveillance.

03:06 No one can talk.

03:07 I don't understand, if they say the situation is fine, then why are our soldiers being martyred?"

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