3 militants killed in Jammu and Kashmir
Three militants were killed and a landmine was detected in a border village in Jammu and Kashmir since Monday night, a police spokesman said on Tuesday. A militant of al-Badr outfit was killed in a gunbattle in Manjakote area of Poonch district in Jammu. Two more militants of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba outfit were shot dead by security forces in Sopore township of Baramulla district, he said.
Acting on specific information, Army troops recovered a live landmine in an agricultural field near the border in Khoda village of Dayalachak belt of Kathua district, official sources said. The mine was later defused, the sources said.
Posted by: Fred 2007-01-03 |