 SRINAGAR, India - Indian troops Friday recovered the bodies of two more Islamic terrorists militants in the Kashmiri Himalayas, taking to nine the number of terrorists rebels killed in clashes there, the army said.
Separately, the regionâs police chief Gopal Sharma said 11 terrorists militants from the dominant rebel group in southern Indian Kashmir, the Hizbul Mujahedin, had been arrested over a series of high-profile killings and grenade attacks.
Terrorists Rebels and troops first clashed with each other in the snowbound Gurez area of Indian-administered Kashmir on Tuesday evening after terrorists rebels were sighted inside the Indian zone of the divided region. Sporadic firefights occurred throughout Wednesday but ended during the night, allowing soldiers Thursday to close in on the positions from where the terrorists rebels had been firing, the army said. âWe recovered seven bodies of terrorists militants on Thursday and two more on Friday,â Indian army spokesman Vijay Batra told AFP.
He said âextensive searchesâ in the area were continuing Friday to flush out any terrorists militants still hiding.
Police chief Sharma meanwhile said the 11 Hizbul terrorists militants had been arrested in southern Anantnag district in coordinated raids over the past few days. He claimed the 11 formed an important Hizbul unit and were involved in the murders of the brother of Kashmir home minister A.R. Veeri and the nephew of the regionâs Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed. âThey were also involved in grenade attacks in busy market areas and a failed attack on the home minister,â he said. |