Five Indian security personnel and two suspected militants killed during a gunbattle in India-administered Kashmir
An Indian paramilitary soldier stands guard as a Kashmiri man walks to buy milk and bread during lockdown in Srinagar, Indian occupied Kashmir, Sunday, May 3, 2020.
The security forces came under heavy gunfire from militants and in the ensuing firefight, two militants and all the team members died, it said. The officer said the reinforcement of special forces was called in and they shot dead the two militants but other two likely escaped. Kashmir is claimed in full by both India and Pakistan, which have gone to war twice over it, and both rule parts of it. India’s portion has been plagued by separatist violence since the late 1980s.
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