| One of two militants holed up in a mosque in Kashmir was killed and the other surrendered after an encounter with security forces. The encouter followed when security forces surrounded the mosque in which militants fleeing a search operation had taken refuge. The incident took place in Bamrada village, 40 km northwest of Srinagar. "We called on the militants to give themselves up, and they responded with gunfire," a senior district police official said. After a series of similar incidents, the authorities warned last year they would neutralise any militants using mosques as a place of refuge during encounters with the security forces. It's extra propaganda points if you can get a few bullet holes in the local mosque. |