Srinagar

The firefight broke out after a joint team of the police and the security forces cordoned off the area on the basis of a specific intelligence input about the presence of terrorists there.

As the security forces zeroed in on the place where the terrorists were hiding, they came under a heavy volume of fire that triggered the encounter.

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