Indian troops kill Pakistani insurgents in Kashmir
AFP, Srinagar
Indian troops in insurgency-hit Kashmir have killed three Pakistani members of a hardline Islamic militant group fighting for the Himalayan region's secession from India, an army spokesman said Friday. "The three were killed during a 20-hour long encounter with Indian army soldiers," said the spokesman, Lieutenant Colonel V.K. Batra. The gunfight had started around midday Thursday in the village of Ribon, near Sopore town, 50 kilometers north of the summer capital Srinagar. "All three slain militants were Pakistani nationals," the spokesman said, adding they were members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, which wants Kashmir to be joined with Pakistan.
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