HELD SRINAGAR: Separate clashes in Indian-held Kashmir killed 10 people including five police ******rs, a soldier, two civilians and two suspected militants, authorities said on Friday as violence in the troubled region spiked.
Suspected militants ambushed a police patrol in the town of Achhabal, killing five police personnel. Earlier, soldiers and a police special counter-insurgency force cordoned off Arwani village on a tip that armed militants were hiding in two homes, triggering a firefight, the ******r said. Two civilians, including a teenage boy, were killed when security forces fired at hundreds of villagers who marched to the site of the shootout to help the militants escape, he added. Two suspected militants were also killed in the shootout, the ******r said.
The unrest spread to neighbouring villages. Separately on Friday, a soldier was killed when Pakistani soldiers fired at Indian posts in southern Naushera at the LoC.
06-17-2017, 02:55 PM
10 more killed in IHK clashes
HELD SRINAGAR: Separate clashes in Indian-held Kashmir killed 10 people including five police ******rs, a soldier, two civilians and two suspected militants, authorities said on Friday as violence in the troubled region spiked.
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