11 die in Kashmir

Published March 18, 2002

SRINAGAR, March 17: Indian security forces shot dead 11 mujahideen in Kashmir overnight, while four other people including two students were killed by suspected militants, police said on Sunday.

Four mujahideen were shot dead in a six-hour-long encounter at Vilgam in the northern district of Kupwara that erupted minutes Indian security forces sealed off the village on a tip-off.

“The identity of the militants is being ascertained,” a police spokesman said in Srinagar.

Separately, a member of the Indian security force was killed in a mine explosion set off by suspected guerillas at Mohiala village in the southern Udhampur district overnight, a police spokesman said.

In another mine explosion, a Hindu was killed late Saturday at Phagwari, on the outskirts of Jammu, police said.

Indian security forces shot dead seven more guerillas in a number of encounters overnight around the troubled state.

Meanwhile, police said a student was killed overnight in Srinagar and another in central Budgam by suspected militants.—AFP

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