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Army captain, JCO, 2 Pakistanis among 7 killed in Kashmir

Three Rashtriya Rifles personnel, including a captain and a junior commissioned officer, and two foreign terrorists were among seven persons killed in the Kashmir valley in the past 24 hours.

An official spokesman said troops of the Rashtriya Rifles came under heavy fire from terrorists at Village Sanglan Achabal, about 63 km from the state capital Srinagar, in south Kashmir last evening.

The troops returned the fire.

The exchange continued for several hours during which three Rashtriya Rifles men, including Captain Ranvir Kantoch and a JCO, were killed.

Later, the bodies of two terrorists, Umar Khan and Aliyas Bhai, both residents of Pakistan, were recovered near the site of the encounter.

One civilian, Rafiq Khan, was also killed in the exchange.

Two Kalashnikov rifles and some ammunition were recovered from the slain terrorists.

Meanwhile, terrorists shot dead a shopkeeper, Mohammad Latief Dar, at Sopore in Baramulla district at about 1100 IST today.

The spokesman said terrorists shot at and wounded one Ali Mohammad at Cheerkot, while two persons were injured in a shootout between terrorists and a policeman at Wawoora Lolab in the frontier district of Kupwara late last night.

Some car-borne miscreants looted Rs 38,850 from a government ration depot employee at Firousabad in Batmaloo district last evening, he added.

UNI

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