Srinagar: A soldier and a militant were killed yesterday in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district as the army kept up its operation against a group of guerrillas that had infiltrated across the Line of Control (LoC).
“The second militant injured in yesterday’s operation in Tandghar sector was killed today, taking the number of militants killed in the Tangdhar infiltration bid to two,” an official spokesman said.
One guerrilla was killed in the sector on Friday when the army foiled an infiltration bid, he added.
The spokesman said a soldier was also killed in the operation.
Major General Lalit Pandey, general officer commanding in chief of the army’s 28th Division, told reporters that 350 trained guerrillas were waiting in launch pads at the border to cross the LOC before infiltration routes close due to snowfall.
IANS
