In the ensuing gunfight two militants were killed, they said and identified the slain men as Irfan Ahmad Sheikh and Irfan Ahmad Rather.
The relatives from the adjacent house rushed to the spot and shifted the boy to a government hospital. Ayan died at the hospital. Representational Image/By Arrangement
Srinagar: Two Hizb-ul-Mujahideen militants were killed in 20-hour-long fire fight with security forces in southern Pulwama district.
The Army and police said that fighting broke out in Pulwama’s Pachaar Rajpora area after the security forces laid siege to the village to flush out militants hiding in a private house on Monday evening.
In the ensuing gunfight two militants were killed, they said and identified the slain men as Irfan Ahmad Sheikh and Irfan Ahmad Rather.
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