Srinagar: Three soldiers of the Rashtriya Rifles and a militant were killed today morning in a gun-battle in south Kashmir, an army officer said. The gunfight was still continuing.
Troops of counter-insurgency force Rashtriya Rifles and police were Friday morning laying a cordon around Bachoo village of Tral tehsil in Pulwama district, 35 km from here, when militants opened fire at them, spokesperson for the army’s Srinagar-based 15 Corps Lt Col Ankur Vasisht told.
“Three soldiers were killed in the militant fire,” he said, adding that the security forces returned the fire in which a militant was killed.
“A militant, identified as Burhan of Hizbul Mujahideen outfit, is believed to have been killed. But we are yet to recover his body as the gunfight is still on. One more soldier has sustained injuries in the gunfight,” the officer added.
The attack on security forces in Kashmir comes a day after police killed Hilal Molvi, a commander of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) group, in Srinagar yesterday morning.
– IANS
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