SRINAGAR, Aug 4: Indian security forces shot dead four militants in northern Kashmir and recovered a cache of explosives hidden in a mosque, a police spokesman claimed Monday.
The militants were killed by the army, backed by paramilitary troops, during two encounters in the northwestern districts of Baramula and Kupwara, he said.
Police identified two of the slain militants as Qadir Khan and Shaheen Sanwani, and claimed they hailed from Karachi.
Meanwhile, India’s Border Security Force (BSF) and local police recovered 40 kilograms of white plastic explosives from a mosque in Srinagar. —AFP
