SRINAGAR: A gunbattle between Indian troops and suspected militants in the forests of occupied Kashmir near the Line of Control left one soldier and four militants dead, an army spokesman said on Sunday.
The 10-hour gunbattle ended just before dawn in Bangus, 120km north of Srinagar, said Lt-Col J.S. Brar.
The fighting started when an army patrol noticed a suspicious group of men and challenged them. The men opened fire, triggering the gunbattle, Col Brar said. Soldiers were chasing down the surviving militants, he said.
The fighting follows two attacks by suspected freedom fighters that killed an Indian policeman and wounded two paramilitary troops in Srinagar on Saturday.
More than a dozen groups are fighting for Kashmir’s independence from India or its unification with Pakistan. More than 68,000 people, most of them civilians, have been killed since the movement began in 1989.
No comments:
Post a Comment