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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