Police and troops killed three militants in two separate gunbattles in Indian-held Kashmir on Tuesday, one of them near the de facto border with Pakistan, officers said. Soldiers and members of the police's special operations group surrounded Hadoora, some 25 kilometres (15 miles) north of held Srinagar, after a tip-off about suspected militants inside a house in the village.
"In the ensuing gunfight two militants were killed. Both are foreigners", police Superintendent Imtiyaz Ismael told AFP. In a separate incident a group of militants attempted to cross the Line of Control (LoC) that divides Kashmir between India and Pakistan in the Sundabani sector, but were intercepted by Indian soldiers. "One terrorist was eliminated in the operation while the balance group fled towards AJK," said an army statement. Several militant groups have spent decades fighting Indian soldiers deployed in the disputed territory, demanding independence or a merger with Pakistan which also claims the Himalayan region in its entirety.
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