The three militants were killed in a gun battle after soldiers, acting on a tip-off, raided a village in south Kashmir, two police sources told Reuters. "Three terrorists were killed and the bodies were retrieved from the site of the encounter," Kashmir police said in a statement. Many Kashmiris hostile to India's rule often gather to throw stones at security forces after militants are killed. In a separate incident in south Kashmir's Pulwama district, suspected militants shot dead a migrant worker from Chhattisgarh state, in central India, in an execution-style killing, police said. In another incident, a fruit merchant was killed and another critically wounded when gunmen fired at them in the Shopian district of south Kashmir.

Source: bd News24 October 16, 2019 16:07 UTC