Suhail Khan
Baramulla, August 20 : Amid ongoing Kashmir crisis after Union Home Minister Amit Shah announced in the Rajya Sabha on August 5 that the special status for the state had been revoked, a first gunfight broke out between militants and government forces in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district this evening.
In a tweet Jammu and Kashmir Police said that exchange of fire between security forces and militants in Baramulla, area under cordon and details will follow.
Pertainally Kashmir Valley remained under a lockdown for the consecutive sixteenth day on Tuesday in the wake of abrogation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir state, with mobile phone networks, landlines and internet access cut off.
