 SRINAGAR, India - Indian troops have killed six more terrorists militants in Kashmir, four of them in quake-hit districts bordering the Pakistani zone of the divided Himalayan region, police said on Tuesday.
Three of the terrorists militants were killed in two separate gunbattles with Indian troops in northern Kupwara district late Monday, a police spokesman said. Kupwara district’s Tangdar area was one of the areas hit the hardest by the devastating October 8 earthquake.
The fourth terrorists militant was shot dead on Tuesday in the southern district of Poonch, also hammered by the massive quake that killed more than 53,000 people in Pakistan and 1,300 in India. Police said two more terrorists militants were killed by the security forces in southern Anantnag district late Monday. One of the slain terrorists militants was identified as Pervaiz Tantray, a battalion commander of the hardline terrorist group Harkat-ul-Jehad Islami, police said. |