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Two LeT militants killed in Kashmir encounter

| | May 14, 2017, at 11:30 pm
Srinagar, May 14 (IBNS) Two Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militants were killed in a brief encounter with security forces in Handwara town of North Kashmir on Sunday, police said.

According to defence sources, a joint operation was launched by a joint team of police and 21 RR cordoned off the Waripora village of Handwara  area following inputs about the presence of militants.

"As the operation party approached towards the suspected site, the hiding militants opened fire, leading to an encounter,” said an official.

He said that two militants were killed in the retaliatory fire.



(Reporting by Saleem Iqbal Qadri)

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