Four policemen, two fighters killed in gun battle in held Kashmir

SRINAGAR (Occupied Kashmir): At least four police personnel and two fighters were killed in a gun battle in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir, an official said on Friday, as troops searched for heavily armed men who local residents had spotted in the area on Sunday.

The encounter this week took place in a forested part of the Kathua area, near India’s border with Pakistan, where the men were spotted last week.

“We have recovered bodies of three police men and have also spotted the body of another cop and two militants lying in the forest,” the official, who did not want to be named because he was not authorised to speak to the media, told Reuters.

Arms and ammunition, including two grenades, a bulletproof jacket, empty shells and some magazines of assault rifles were also recovered from the area, the official said.

Police and the army are yet to reveal the number of those killed in the operation, but the Governor of Jammu and Kashmir, Manoj Sinha, said in a post on X that “several terrorists” had been “neutralised” in the encounter.