Six ultras killed, Govt. building attacked

SRINAGAR, MAY 26. Six militants and a security personnel were among eight persons killed in separate incidents since last night in Jammu and Kashmir where ultras hurled a grenade at a heavily- guarded government building injuring two civilians.

Three militants were killed in a fierce gunbattle between ultras and Army troops in Doda district's Banihal area today, official sources said.

They said the gunfight ensued when troops launched an operation to flush out militants from the area, and added that three AK rifles, 12 grenades, four rockets and some explosives were recovered from the scene.

A self-styled deputy commander of Hizbul Mujahideen was killed in an encounter with security forces at Safeda Ari in Surankote sector of Poonch district, an official spokesman said.

He said two more Hizbul militants were killed in a gunbattle with a joint search party of the Army and special operations group of the Jammu and Kashmir police in Zachaldara forest in frontier district of Kupwara.

Two persons were injured when militants hurled a grenade at a heavily-guarded government building in Badshah Chowk area here.

The attack was carried out from a nearby bus stand. The building also housed the office of the Joint Director, Information.

The injured, hailing from Pathankot in Punjab, were hospitalised. A security jawan was killed and another wounded when militants set off an improvised explosive device (IED) in Banihal area of Udhampur district. The spokesman said two security personnel were injured in an exchange of fire with militants in the same district.

He said militants shot dead an employee of the Irrigation Department at his house in Amargarh area in Baramulla district.

Police arrested a Pakistani mercenary in Jammu region's Kana check sector. At his instance four kg of explosives were recovered. Security forces arrested two militants, Mohammad Yousuf Chichi and Lateef Chichi, from their hideout in Bandipora last night.

- PTI

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