SRINAGAR – Militants on Monday hurled grenade targetting a CRPF camp of180 battalion in Pulwama’s Tral in Jammu and Kashmir. The area has beencordoned off.

A militant was killed earlier in the day in an encounter with the securityforces in Kupwara district. The encounter operation had started on Sundaynight. The militant was killed in the forest area of Kupwara’s Handwara.

In another unrelated incident, terrorists in Bandipora district killed awoman by slitting her throat. Police said that the militants barged intothe house of Abdul Majid Dar, associated with Peoples Democratic Party(PDP), in Shahgund village of Hajin area on Sunday night.

The militants attacked Dar’s wife Shakeela Begum, and slit her throat.Later, she succumbed in the hospital.

Over the last few days, the state has witnessed a spurt in terroractivities.

These incidents come barely days after the body of Jammu and Kashmir policeconstable was found last Friday by locals of Kulgam’s Pariwan. Resident ofVehil village in Shopian, Javaid Ahmad Dar, was abducted from a localmedical shop on Thursday.