 SRINAGAR, India - Soldiers and police clashed Friday with Islamic terrorists militants in Kashmir, killing three insurgents, police said, as a separate gunbattle raged elsewhere in the divided Himalayan region.
The three terrorists militants were found door knob dead in the village of Sursan, 70 kilometers (44 miles) south of Srinagar, the main city in Indian Kashmir, said the area’s police chief, S. P. Pani. “We had information about the presence of four terrorists militants in this village and accordingly cordoned off the entire village,” he said. “As troops were zeroing in on the target house, a gunbattle erupted.” He could not say what happened to the fourth terrorist militant.
Pani also said a separate gunbattle was being fought in the village Khudwani, also south of Srinagar, and that nine terrorists militants had been killed by security forces in that area in the past three days. |