Hundreds turned up to attend the funeral ceremony of Shabir Ahmad Malik, the Kashmiri soldier killed in the army's ongoing encounter with Lashkar-e-Taiyba militants, at Dab Wakoora village in north Kashmir's Ganderbal district.
The gunfight between militants and the army in north Kashmir's Shamsbhari mountain range in the frontier Kupwara district has claimed 25 lives till now.
The Army has so far eliminated 17 militants while it has lost eight troopers, including Major Mohit Sharma.
Text: Mukhtar Ahmad In Srinagar | Photographs: Fayaz Kabli/Reuters
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