A local commander of the Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) outfit was killed on Tuesday in a gunfight between holed up terrorists and security forces in Kashmir's Kupwara district.
The HM commander has been identified as Sameer Wani, was killed in the encounter in Nagri village.
"Security forces had surrounded a residential house in the village following information about a group of militants hiding there," a police officer said.
The gunbattle between terrorists and security forces broke out in Kupwara in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday morning and firing between the two sides is still on.
This is the seventh attack in Kashmir in less than a week and brings to the fore the sudden spike in militancy in the valley.
Last week 8 CRPF jawans were killed and around 20 were injured in Pampore after terrorists ambushed a convoy bus.
On June 23 around 6 terrorists were gunned down in two separate incidents in Kupwara.
3 terrorists were also killed in an encounter in Lolab.
A grenade attack was also reported on security forces in Sopore although no casualties were reported.
Post the Pampore attack, Home minister Rajnath Singh and Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar had strongly backed the security forces and asked them to give a befitting reply to the terrorists.
In a recent interview Prime Minister Narendra Modi too had said that the security forces have "full freedom to answer back" to the attacks by the infiltrators.
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