Srinagar, May 08: Three militants, one of them belonging to Hizbul Mujahideen, were killed on Saturday in separate gunfights with security forces who busted three ultra hideouts seizing 60-kg explosives besides a huge cache of arms in Jammu and Kashmir.
Two militants were killed in a fierce gun battle with security forces in Shah Nagri Forest in Handwara, some 80-km from summer capital Srinagar, officials said.
Security forces, acting on a specific information that some militants were hiding there, cordoned off the area, they said.
As the troops zeroed in on the militants, they opened fire triggering a gunfight in which two ultras were killed.
The identity and group affiliations of the slain ultras were yet to be ascertained, the officials said.
A Hizbul Mujahideen militant was killed and a policeman wounded in the exchange of fire between security forces and ultras at Mahore in Jammu division’s Reasi district
—Agencies