Subscribe by Email

Five militants killed in Kashmir

Published October 1, 2012 | 9:10 am

SAANJ NEWS

Srinagar:Indian security forces Monday shot dead five militants in Jammu and Kashmir, police said.

All of them belonged to the Hizbul Mujahideen group, a police officer told IANS. He said the five were from Pakistan and were killed in a gun battle in a forested part of Garderbal district.

A huge cache of arms and ammunition was seized from the site.

The officer said the group had infiltrated into the Kashmir Valley about a month back from Pakistan.

The counter-insurgency Rashtriya Rifles and the Special Operations Group of Jammu and Kashmir Police launched a joint operation early Monday following a tip off, police said.

“When the militants were surrounded and asked to surrender, they started firing at the security forces,” the officer said.-IANS

Posted by on October 1, 2012. Filed under INDIA. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry