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J&K security forces kill 4 terrorists in gunbattle
Security forces killed four terrorists, including two in a 50-hour gunbattle in Sopore town of Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Saturday.The protracted gunbattle, which began around 3.30 pm on Thursday following an abortive attempt by terrorists to storm BSF battalion headquarters in the north Kashmir town, ended on Friday night with the killing of two terrorists, a BSF spokesman said. Bodies of two terrorists holed up inside horticulture department building and engaged in a gunbattle with Border Security Force at Sopore were recovered on Saturday, the spokesman said. Mutilated bodies of terrorists, one of them burnt beyond recognition, were recovered alongwith their weapons, he said. Sopore town remained under tight cordon for the third day on Saturday as the BSF troops were still searching the building where terrorists had taken shelter, the officials said. A portion of the building was gutted during the encounter, which also claimed life of a BSF jawan and left six others including three security men injured on Thursday. In another encounter, security forces killed two terrorists at Gujjarpathi-Sumlar in Bandipora area of Baramulla district on Friday night, the officials said. The gunbattle broke out when troops laid a cordon around the village to flush out hiding terrorists, they said, adding a large quantity of arms and ammunition were recovered from slain terrorists. Posted by: john 2005-12-24 |
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