High alert: Indian soldiers standing guard where an encounter took place in the Tanghdar sector in Kashmir’s Kupwara district. — AFP
SRINAGAR (India): The Indian army killed three suspected rebels and another person was shot dead during a six-hour gun battle on a military camp in Indian Kashmir near the border with Pakistan, a military spokesman said.
Heavily-armed fighters stormed the army base in Tangdhar, 140km northwest of the main city of Srinagar, setting off grenades and firing automatic weapons.
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