SRINAGAR: Indian government forces killed six fighters in a series of so-called counterinsurgency operations in Occupied Kashmir, police said on Thursday.
The four deadly and separate incidents starting on Wednesday came as violence in the disputed Himalayan region has increased in recent weeks.
Four fighters were killed in two separate gunfights with Indian troops in southern Kashmir’s Pulwama and Kulgam districts early on Thursday, the Indian army said.
On Wednesday, troops apprehended a senior Kashmiri fighter, Mehraj-ud-din Halwai, in the northwestern Handwara area, and after interrogation he led them to a hideout where he was killed in a firefight, police claimed in a statement.
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