Three LeT militants, woman killed in encounter

KASHMIR-GUNBATTLE

Srinagar, Sept 28 (PTI) Three Lashkar-e-Toiba
militants, including two from Pakistan, and an elderly woman
were killed in an encounter with security forces in Pulwama
district (in India's northernmost state of Jammu and Kashmir)
Monday.

Four jawans were also injured in the encounter but
they were all out of danger, police said.

The encounter broke out at Amlar-Tral, 50 kms from
here, Monday morning when the militants hiding in a house in
the village opened fire on a joint search party of police and
Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), they said.

The wife of the house owner, Taja, died in the
shootout between the militants and the police.

Two of the slain militants were Pakistani nationals,
police said.

"We had information that two Pakistani terrorists had
infiltrated into South Kashmir for a suicide attack. We were
after them and ultimately we tracked them down in the village
in Tral," IG, Kashmir, Farooq Ahmed said.

Three militants -- two hailing from Multan in Pakistan
and a local terrorist -- were killed, he said, adding
unfortunately the old lady also died in the cross firing.

"We cordoned off the village early this morning. We
came under heavy fire thereafter as a result of which three
jawans of CRPF and one from Jammu and Kashmir Police got
injured but they are all out of danger," Ahmed said. PTI AMS
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