The Jammu & Kashmir policeman injured in the encounter with terrorists in Jammu's Doda district succumbed to his injuries on Tuesday. The number of security personnel killed in this gunfight is now five.
Earlier, four army soldiers including a Captain were injured critically in the nocturnal encounter with the terrorists in the densely forested area of Doda district, and succumbed.
Initially, five security personnel, including a policeman were critically injured in the gunfight during the night intervening July 15 and July 16.
"The encounter had started after the troops of Rashtriya Rifles and Special Operations Group of Police launched a Cordon & Search Operation at Dhari Gate Urarbagi in Desa forest area around 7.45 p.m. on Monday. Four army personnel, including an officer, and a policeman were injured in the exchange of fire which initially lasted for over 20 minutes," officials said.
"The operation against the terrorists is going on in the area," they added.
Doda is one of the heavily forested hilly districts of Jammu division where terrorists are believed to be operating on a hit-and-run strategy.
To deal with this modus operandi of the terrorists, the Ministries of Defence and Home Affairs recently decided at a high-level security review meeting that the densely forested mountainous areas of Jammu division will be manned by the army and CRPF.
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