CASO underway as gunshots heard in Rafiabad

SOPORE — Gunshots were heard in Malpora watergam area of Rafiabad North Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Friday evening.

Sources told KNO that at around 8:55 pm, unknown persons fired a volley of bullets in paddy fields in Malpora Watergam village of Rafiabad.

Sources said that a joint team of Army’s 32RR and Jammu and Kashmir Police’s SOG cordoned off the area in Malpora Watergam after credible inputs about presence of militants.

They said that as the forces laid the siege, after gunshots were heard from the area.

While talking to SSP Sopore Javid Iqbal told KNO that “we are verifying the incidents weather it is firing or something else.”

He said cordon has been launched in the area.