 SRINAGAR, India - Indian soldiers have killed three key Pakistani members of a hardline Islamic terrorist militant group waging an insurgency in Indian-ruled Kashmir, police said on Sunday. Two of the terrorists militants from Lashkar-e-Toiba were killed during a 12-hour long gunbattle late Saturday in the southern Poonch district, a police spokesman said. He identified the pair as Abu Bilal and Abu Saqui. Two others escaped. âThe four were in a meeting when security forces launched a raid based on a tip-off,â the spokesman said.
Another Lashkar terrorist militant, Abu Maaz, was killed during a gunbattle in the neighbouring district of Doda late Saturday, police said. âAll three were Pakistani terrorists nationals and served as Lashkarâs self-styled district commanders,â the spokesman said, calling their deaths a âmajor setbackâ for the terrorists militants. |