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Thirteen militants, four security personnel among 19 killed in J&K

Official sources said militants hurled a hand grenade at a security force vehicle at the bus stand in Bandipora on Tuesday, but it missed the target and exploded on the roadside, causing injuries to four pedestrians.

A defence ministry spokesman said militants fired at a security force search party at Gaggarian in Poonch sector on Tuesday morning. Two militants and one civilian were killed. The operation was going on when reports last came in, he said.

He said two militants, believed to be foreigners, were killed in an encounter at Darugmulla in the frontier district of Kupwara on Monday evening. Two AK rifles, six magazines, two rifle grenades and one wireless set were seized.

He said militants, late on Monday night, entered the home of one Ghulam Nabi Hajam at Branthi Batpora in south Kashmir and started firing, killing the house owner and wounding his brother.

In another incident, he said, militants gunned down a police constable, Manzoor Ahmad, at Lowermunda in his in-laws' home on Monday evening.

The spokesman said a security officer was killed and four jawans suffered injuries in an encounter with militants at Kandi Kupwara on Monday evening.

He said another militant was shot dead by security forces during a search operation at Qazigund in south Kashmir on Monday evening. He possessed one AK rifle and a few magazines, which were seized.

Official sources said four more militants were killed in a night-long encounter that ensued after militants attacked a security force search party in Kulgam village in south Kashmir late on Monday evening. One jawan also lost his life. Some arms and ammunition were recovered near the site of the encounter.

Four militants and a jawan were killed in a night-long encounter that ensued after militants attacked a security force patrol party with grenades and automatic weapons at Chitti, about 10 kilometres from Bandipora in north Kashmir on Monday evening.

About half a dozen houses were also damaged in the clash, the sources said.

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