Sources said that during the gunfight so far, two militants have been killed, though there has been no official confirmation. Security forces suspect the presence of a group of 5–7 well-trained and heavily armed militants, comprising locals and foreigners, in the forest area.The GoC of 15 Corps, Lieutenant General Prashant Srivastava, and Director General of Police (DGP) Nalin Prabhat are supervising the operation. It is the longest anti-militancy operation in Kashmir since September 2023.In September 2023, an encounter between militants and security forces in the dense forest area of Kokernag in south Kashmir lasted seven days, in which four security personnel — including the Commanding Officer of 19 Rashtriya Rifles, his deputy, and a Deputy Superintendent of Police — and a local Lashkar militant were killed.The Kulgam encounter is also the second major gunfight in Kashmir in the last 10 days. On July 28, three Pakistani militants of Lashkar-e-Toiba, who were involved in the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack, were killed in an encounter with security forces in the Dachigam forest area of Harwan on the outskirts of Srinagar.
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