The gun fight broke in the wee hours of Monday. Tribune file
Majid Jahangir
Tribune News Service
Srinagar, October 24
A militant was killed in a gun fight in north Kashmir’s frontier Kupwara district on Monday.
The militant, suspected to be a foreigner, was killed in Warnow Lolab, around 100 km from Srinagar.
The gun fight broke in the wee hours of Monday when a joint team of police and army launched a search operation after an input about the presence of militants in the area.
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“As the search was underway, militants fired at the joint party and it was retaliated, triggering an encounter. A militant who tried to break the cordon was killed in the gunfight,” Kupwara Superintendent of Police Shamsher Hussain said. The search operation is on.
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