The militants threw a grenade when the security forces asked them to stop in Ban Toll Square, prompting an encounter, police said.
Four unidentified militants were killed and a policeman injured in a shooting that broke out at a toll plaza on the 270-kilometer-long Srinagar-Jammu national highway in the Nagrota area of Jammu on Thursday morning.
“Four terrorists have been neutralized and a police officer was injured in the encounter in Ban Toll Plaza, Jammu, with a joint team of the police, the CRPF and the Army. The area is being cleaned up, ”said a police spokesman.
The national highway has been closed to traffic.
These militants were traveling from Jammu to Srinagar in a vehicle when the security forces intercepted them around 5 am, “following a warning”.
The militants threw a grenade when security forces asked them to stop at the toll plaza, prompting an encounter, police said.
Preliminary reports suggest that the militants may have crossed the border recently from the Samba sector and were heading south to Kashmir.
Earlier on January 31, three militants were killed when they opened fire on a joint group of police and CRPF in Ban Toll Square in Jammu.
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