Fact-Check: Facts of recent encounter have been manipulated.

As an encounter is currently underway in Kashmir’s kupwara district, a pak-based handle shared some visuals from the encounter and claimed that four Indian soldiers were killed and multiple injured during an attack on a camp in Kupwara.

Sharing a video that captured the visuals from the recent encounter, an account named Tactical Tribune claimed: “4 Indian soldiers killed, multiple injured during an attack on their camp in Kupwara, Jammu and Kashmir. Ambulances are seen in the area”.

Fact-Check

In the probe, the DFRAC team found out the facts given in the above-shared claim, has been manipulated.

Conducting a keyword search on Google in this regard, we found some of the latest reports from various media outlets (News18, India Today, and Times Now). Notably, these are the latest updates from the encounter at the time of writing this fact-check. The story will be updated immediately after major developments on this news.

As per reports, one terrorist was killed, while one police official was injured in an ongoing encounter between security forces and terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir on Monday, sources said. The gunfight was underway in the Kupwara district of the Union Territory.

Conclusion

It is evident from DFRAC’s fact-check that the facts employed in the above made claim have been misleadingly shared on X. In reality, one terrorist has been killed in the ongoing encounter, not any Indian soldier.

Analysis: Misleading