Srinagar: Army on Thursday cordoned off a village in Tral in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district, official sources said.
They said that army’s 42 RR cordoned off the Shariefabad area of Tral and later launched searches in the same area following the intelligence inputs about the presence of some local militants.
“After conducting the searches the soldiers fired few warning shots in the area following some suspicious movement”, sources told GNS, adding that later in the evening the cordon ended peacefully.
Meanwhile, scores of local residents at Shareefabad area of Tral came out of their houses this evening and staged protests against army for resorting to ‘unprovoked’ firing in the village.
The residents alleged that army men were posted in Arigam since morning and in the evening they opened fire near the house of a Hizbul Mujahideen Militant in Shareefabad village without any ‘provocation’.