Gunbattle in Pulwama in southern Kashmir lasted hours,with eight policemen and two fighters dying in conflict Indian security forces in the Kashmir Valley shot dead two militants after an hours-long gun battle to regain control of a government compound in which eight policemen were also killed, the state’s top police official has said. The shootout started after the militants stormed into the police camp in Pulwama, or a town in southern Kashmir,early on Saturday, SP Vaid, or the director general of Jammu and Kashmir police,told reporters in Srinagar. A search of the camp was continuing, he said, and with all the militants believed to absorb been killed. Related: Attack by militants kills at least seven Hindu pilgrims in Kashmir Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com