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Thirteen killed and houses of 2 NC leaders attacked in J&K
Thirteen people, including three security personnel and nine militants, one of them a member of a suicide squad of Pakistan-based Lashker-e-Toiba outfit, were killed in separate incidents in Jammu and Kashmir since Monday night, an official spokesman said in Srinagar on Tuesday.
Thirteen people, including three security personnel and nine militants, one of them a member of a suicide squad of Pakistan-based Lashker-e-Toiba outfit, were killed in separate incidents in Jammu and Kashmir since Monday night, an official spokesman said in Srinagar on Tuesday.
Militants attacked the houses of two ruling National Conference leaders in the state while security forces arrested three militants during the period, the spokesman said. Army unearthed an arms dump and recovered 87 kgs of explosives and a large quantity of rockets and grenades in Machil sector of frontier district of Kupwara in North Kashmir on Tuesday, a defence spokesman said.
Besides 87 kgs of explosives, the seizure included five rockets, 18 rocket boosters, 27 rifle grenades and ten automatic grenade launchers which were dumped by militants near the Line of Control at Gali Wali Bahak after smuggling the material from across the border, he said.
Two CRPF personnel, including an inspector, and a member of a suicide squad of LeT were killed and three policemen, one of them an officer, were injured in an encounter that ensued when militants attacked a police camp in Shopian town of south Kashmir, the spokesman said. He said that a militant of LeT forced his entry into the SoG camp at Gagren-Shopian also manned by personnel of CRPF last night. The Fidayeen identified as Abu Talha alias Bilal engaged the policemen in an eight-hour-long encounter killing Inspector H L Gupta and constable Anand Solanki of CRPF and left three SoG personnel, including a sub-inspector, injured. One civilian was also injured in the gunfight.
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Militants attacked the houses of two ruling National Conference leaders in the state while security forces arrested three militants during the period, the spokesman said. Army unearthed an arms dump and recovered 87 kgs of explosives and a large quantity of rockets and grenades in Machil sector of frontier district of Kupwara in North Kashmir on Tuesday, a defence spokesman said.
Besides 87 kgs of explosives, the seizure included five rockets, 18 rocket boosters, 27 rifle grenades and ten automatic grenade launchers which were dumped by militants near the Line of Control at Gali Wali Bahak after smuggling the material from across the border, he said.
Two CRPF personnel, including an inspector, and a member of a suicide squad of LeT were killed and three policemen, one of them an officer, were injured in an encounter that ensued when militants attacked a police camp in Shopian town of south Kashmir, the spokesman said. He said that a militant of LeT forced his entry into the SoG camp at Gagren-Shopian also manned by personnel of CRPF last night. The Fidayeen identified as Abu Talha alias Bilal engaged the policemen in an eight-hour-long encounter killing Inspector H L Gupta and constable Anand Solanki of CRPF and left three SoG personnel, including a sub-inspector, injured. One civilian was also injured in the gunfight.
Bureau Report