An encounter started between government forces and militants in Pulwama village of south Kashmir on Monday evening. SSP Pulwama Mohammad Aslam told news agency GNS that a joint team of army’s 44 RR, SOG and CRPF following a specific information cordoned off village Kandi Aglar. Soon after the joint team intensified the searches, the hiding militants opened fire triggering off an encounter. When reports last came in the intermittent exchange of firing was going on. (GNS) Meanwhile Militants on Saturday fired on a police team in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district, killing a policeman while injuring another, the police said. “Militants fired upon a naka party of police near Police Station Rajpora in Pulwama, resulting in injuries to two constables — Abdul Salam and Munir Ahmad,” a police official said. He said both the injured personnel were taken to Army’s 92 base hospital here, where Salam succumbed to his injuries. Ahmad was undergoing treatment for his injuries, the official said.