Kupwara gunbattle ends, 17 militants killed

Six more militants were killed taking the death toll in the fierce gunbattle between militants and security forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district to 25 as the five-day-long stand-off ended on Tuesday evening.

Six more militants were killed on Tuesday taking the death toll in the fierce gunbattle between militants and security forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district to 25 as the five-day-long stand-off ended this evening.

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Seventeen militants and eight Army personnel, including a Major, were killed in the encounter which began on March 20 on higher reaches of the Shamsabari range in Harfada forest, a defence spokesman said.

Four soldiers and five militants were killed on Monday while an ultra died a day before. On Saturday, four troops, including Major Mohit Sharma, and two insurgents, were killed.

On the first day, three militants were mowed down by the security forces.