Srinagar: Three militants were killed and a house was razed in a seven and half hours long gun battle in Sonawari area of J&K’s northern district of Bandipore on Thursday. Police and Army officials said the counter-insurgency Special Operations Group (SOG) of local police along with Army’s 13 Rashtriya Rifles mounted a search operation in Hajin Sonawari’s Khosa Mohalla after receiving report about presence of a group of LeT militants there.
As the securitymen zeroed in on a two-storey private house owned by one Sannaullah Bhat, they came under a barrage of gun fire from holed up militants. Militants made repeated attempts to flee by opening indiscriminate fire towards the security forces. While intermittent firing between the two sides was on, the security forces used explosives to blow up a portion of the house which resulted into the killing of one militant.
