Srinagar: Authorities on Sunday blocked mobile internet services in parts of Budgam and Baramulla district following an encounter in Aarizal Beerwa.

A senior police official said that the internet was snapped as part of measures “to keep a check on rumors and in view of the encounter that left one militant dead in Beerwa area.”

A militant was killed and a teenage girl sustained bullet wounds in a pre-dawn brief encounter.

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