Indian police kill two in Kashmir

SRINAGAR, Sept 17: Two Mujahideen have been killed in a flare-up of violence in occupied Kashmir, police said on Friday, as the police bomb squad beefed up its armoury with a bomb detection vehicle.

A police spokesman said the two Mujahideen were killed during a four-hour clash near the picnic spot of Kokernag, 70 kilometres south of occupied Srinagar.

Occupied Kashmir police chief Gopal Sharma handed over a mobile bomb detection vehicle to a police squad. -AFP

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