Attempts of local residents, mostly youths, to storm encounter sites to divert the attention of security forces have been taking place with regularity in recent years. This has been going on for over five years now. It is a reversal of the earlier phase of insurgency when residents used to flee. The latest incident took place on Wednesday in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district where militants, initially believed to be two or three in number, were trapped by security forces in Naina village. As the encounter was under way amid intense…
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