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Bandh-hit Kashmir sees 4 killings

Two Border Security Force personnel were killed, and another injured, when militants detonated a powerful improvised explosive device near a bank at Pattan in Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla Friday morning.

Elsewhere in the bandh-hit valley, two persons were killed and three Central Reserve Police Force personnel, including an inspector, injured since Thursday evening.

Officials said militants detonated the explosive device when a BSF patrol party was moving in the area. The two personnel were killed on the spot. The area has been cordoned off, and a massive hunt is on for the culprits.

Sources said unidentified militants shot dead Nizam-ud-din, a civilian, in the border town of Uri, North Kashmir, on Thursday evening.

They said a joint party of CRPF and JK police task force, cordoned off a village near Chandoora in Badgam district to nab militants and sympathisers. The militants hiding there attacked the security personnel with automatic weapons. In the shootout that followed, Nizam-ud-din was killed and three CRPF men injured.

Meanwhile, shops and business establishments in Srinagar and other major towns in the valley remained closed on a strike call from the Jammu and Kashmir Government Employees Conference. It was protesting against the alleged human rights violations, anti employees policy and corruption in the state.

Government offices, banks and educational institutions wore a deserted look.

UNI

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