Three militants killed in Indian-controlled Kashmir gunfight; Covid-19 death toll rises to 9,900 with 343,091 cases

people react to the smoke as civic authority workers fumigate a slum area to kill disease-carrying mosquitoes in Mumbai ahead of the monsoon season. With hospitals already severely stretched, coronavirus-hit India is now bracing for the monsoon and its deadly annual onslaught of mosquito-borne illnesses, with an overwhelmed army of public health workers the only defence. - AFP

SRINAGAR, India (Xinhua): Three militants were killed on Tuesday (June 16) in a fierce gunfight with government forces in restive Indian-controlled Kashmir, police said.

The gunfight broke out at village Turkawangam of Shopian district, about 55 km south of Srinagar city, the summer capital of Indian-controlled Kashmir.