This was the highest number of attempted ingress reported in one day from Tanghdar, Nowgam and Gurez sectors of Kupwara and Bandipore districts in recent months. In retaliation, Indian troops fired in the direction from where the movement had been observed.In the the gunbattle, Four militants were killed and a war-like store recovered.The operation is still in progress. While the Army pushed back the militants in two sectors of the Valley, they killed four militants trying to cross-over into Kashmir through the Nowgam sector.
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The militants, Army added, made another attempt to enter Kashmir through Gurez sector in Bandipore.
Alert troops foiled yet another infiltration bid killing three heavily armed militants near Line of Control (LoC) in the frontier district of Kupwara early this morning, official sources said. “The fire was returned by the soldiers, triggering an encounter”, he said.
He said bodies of the slain militants, whose identity and affiliation was being ascertained, were recovered.
Both Mir and his wife, who had locked themselves inside a room in the building, were rescued unhurt after the militants were killed around 7:15 pm, police said.
A senior police official told media that the gunfight started again from the under construction mini secretariat building in Poonch town, the site of Sunday’s firing.
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An elderly couple, held hostage in their house by militants, was rescued on Sunday as security forces killed seven militants in two gun battles that also left a police officer dead in Kashmir, as tensions in the region ratcheted higher and street protests against Indian rule grew. He said that the Army units deployed in the area on receiving the information immediately reacted with quick reaction teams. In the ensuing encounter, one sub-inspector of Special Operation Group of Jammu and Kashmir Police (Poonch), one police jawaan and two Army jawaans of 39 RR were injured.
