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Ten killed, six injured in J&K

Ten people, including six militants and three security personnel, were killed and six others wounded in overnight incidents in Jammu and Kashmir, an official spokesman said on Sunday.

Five mercenaries, four associated with the Lashkar-e-Tayiba outfit and one belonging to the Harkat-ul-mujahideen, were killed in separate encounters with security forces at Super-Bogund near Kulgam and Bunthan-Mir Bazar in Anantnag district of south Kashmir, during overnight operations, official sources said on Sunday.

A special police officer, Nazir Ahmad Wagay, also laid down his life in the encounter in which two residential houses were also gutted, sources said adding four AK assault rifles, a pistol, a wireless set and four grenades were recovered from the slain militants.

A jawan and a militant were killed in another encounter at Saj in Thanamandi area of Rajouri district on Saturday night. An AK assault rifle, six grenades and a large quantity of ammunition were recovered from the slain militant, sources added.

Six persons, including a special police officer were wounded when a grenade hurled by militants towards a moving security vehicle missed the target and exploded on a busy road in Kupwara on Sunday. The injured were rushed to hospital where the condition of two of them was stated to be serious, the sources said.

Militants ambushed a security patrol at Khanwtar in Poonch district, killing a soldier. The troops retaliated but the militants fled from the scene.

Meanwhile, suspected militants attacked a Border Security Force jawan and decamped with his self-loading rifle, its one magazine and 20 rounds when he visited a hospital for a medical checkup, sources said.

UNI

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