Kashmir: Security forces found the body of a militant inside an under construction mini secretariat building in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district, where a gunfight is continuing.
A senior police official said while carrying out room to room searches in the building, security forces found the body, taking the toll of killed militants since Sunday to four.
The search operation is going on in the same under construction mini secretariat building in Poonch, where the Sunday's firing took place.
"The building and adjacent areas were surrounded. The army jawans are slowly moving inside the building with probe firing to ascertain whether any terrorists are still holed up inside the building or not," the official said.
On Sunday, violence erupted in large parts Kashmir with incidents of clashes, terror attack and gun shots reported from Pulwama, Poonch and in Gurez sector respectively.
"One policeman was killed and another injured. Also two army jawans and a civilian are injured while an old couple was rescued yesterday by forces just before the encounter started," police sources said.
Meanwhile, the Valley remained shut for the 66th day with authorities deploying security personnel in Srinagar and other places to maintain law and order, even as the death toll reached 79.
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