 | "Eight! Eight dead turbans!
Aph aph aph aph aph!" |
Eight suspected militants were shot dead by troops after gun battles across Indian Kashmir as part of intensified efforts to hunt down insurgents, police said on Sunday. Six suspected militants were killed in three separate gunbattles late on Saturday in the southern Pulwama district, a police spokesman said, adding two policemen were also hurt in one of the gun battles. "The firefights erupted when troops backed by police found the militants in their hide-outs in the district," the spokesman said. In other fighting, troops killed two rebels on Saturday in the northern Kupwara district which borders Azad Kashmir, police said. |