Rebels kill 3 troopers, police officer in separate gunfights in Indian-controlled Kashmir
Three Indian soldiers and a police officer have been killed in separate gunfights with rebels over the previous two days in the mountainous Indian-controlled Kashmir, officers mentioned Wednesday.
Indian authorities forces launched a joint operation towards the militants late on Tuesday in the Kokernag space of Kashmir’s Anantnag district.
After a lull in a single day, combating resumed there on Wednesday, a military assertion mentioned. Two troopers — a colonel and a significant — and the police officer have been killed, police mentioned. Officials didn’t touch upon any militant casualties in Kokernag.
The second gunfight erupted in the district of Rajouri, a extremely militarized space near the Line of Control that divides Kashmir between India and Pakistan. It left a soldier and two militants useless, the military mentioned in a press release Wednesday.
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Nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan every administer part of Kashmir, however each declare the territory in its entirety.
Rebel teams have been combating since 1989 for Kashmir’s independence or merger with neighboring Pakistan. Most Muslim Kashmiris assist the insurgent purpose of uniting the territory, both underneath Pakistani rule or as an impartial nation.
New Delhi insists the Kashmir militancy is sponsored by Pakistan, which Islamabad denies. Most Kashmiris take into account it a respectable freedom battle.