SRINAGAR, India - A suspected Islamic terrorist militant and three policemen were killed in a fierce gunbattle, while eight people were injured in two attacks by terrorists rebels in restive Indian Kashmir, police said on Wednesday.
The gunbattle erupted late Tuesday when troops and police surrounded a house in southern Doda district where the terrorists militants were hiding, a police spokesman said. âTerrorists Militants opened fire on troops who were closing in on them,â the spokesman said, adding that police and troops returned fire. âTwo policemen who tried to storm the house in an attempt to kill the terrorists militants were killed the moment they stepped into the house,â he said.
âIn the ensuing gunbattle one terrorist militant and another policeman died and three houses were damaged.â
Two policemen and two civilians were injured in a grenade attack by suspected terrorists rebels in the heart of the summer capital Srinagar on Wednesday, a police spokesman said. The attack on police was near the high-security federal telecommunications headquarters and the main office of Indiaâs ruling Congress party.
Four soldiers were injured in an ambush by suspected terrorists militants late Tuesday in the northern district of Kupwara, police said.
None of the one dozen terrorist rebel groups active in Kashmir has claimed responsibility for the two attacks. |