Eight killed in Kashmir gun battle

By SPA,

Srinagar, India : An army officer and Seven separatists were killed in a fierce gun battle in Indian Kashmir, an army spokesman said on Wednesday.


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The firefight started on Tuesday in Kupwara sector in north Kashmir, very near to the “line of control” that divides Kashmir between India and Pakistan.

“The operation is still continuing and we think more terrorists are hiding in the forest,” Umamaheswar, an Indian Army spokesman who goes by one name said. An army officer was among the eight killed, he said.

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