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| India-Pakistan |
| 2 jawans, 4 militants killed in encounter |
| 2008-09-23 |
| Four militants and two jawans were killed in a fierce gunfight that broke out on Sunday along the LoC in Poonch with security personnel foiling an attempt by ultras to infiltrate into Jammu and Kashmir. The Four militants were killed on Monday as firing resumed after a brief lull. Two jawans, Naik Tape Ajo of Nagaland Regiment and Sepoy Chiba of One Assam Regiment, had died in the shootout. The armed militants entered the Indian side "from Kabaristan post of Pakistan and were trapped by troops between Zeroline and border fencing along the LoC in Poonch district at 0830 hours yesterday", a senior army official said. The infiltration bid by militants was preceded by heavy firing from the Pakistani side on Indian positions along the LoC. The encounter is taking place in a heavily mined area. "We cannot lift the bodies as militants might have laid a mine-field trap," an official source said. Security forces have seized four AK rifles along with eight magazines and 72 bullets and some eatables and medicines from the site of the shootout, the source said. Meanwhile, there was an exchange of fire between police and terrorists in Rai Nallah in Udhian area of Doda district yesterday but no one was hurt, the source said. The terrorists managed to escape but left behind one AK magazine, four bullets, seven detonators, a UBGL shell, a hand grenade, a wireless set, one antenna and a tape recorder along with a cassette. |
| Posted by:Fred |