At least four suspected rebels killed and two policemen injured in a shootout with security forces near the city of Jammu in Indian-administered Kashmir.
Four suspected rebels were killed in a shootout with security forces on a road outside the city of Jammu in Indian-administered Kashmir, authorities said Thursday.
At least two Indian policemen were injured during the clash that took place at a toll plaza in the Nagrota area of the southern city of Kashmir, police said.
Police Inspector General Mukesh Singh told reporters that the shooting lasted for three hours.
The shooting broke out at 4:20 a.m. local time (22:50 GMT on Wednesday) after the truck carrying the suspected rebels was intercepted by security personnel near a toll plaza, the forces spokesman said. paramilitaries, Moses Dinakaran.
Police said suspected rebels fired at the checkpoint on the main road between Jammu and Srinagar, the capital of Indian-administered Kashmir, after which security forces returned fire.
Police said they were verifying the identities of the dead. [Channi Anand/AP Photo]
Police said they were verifying the identities of the dead.
Police stopped traffic on the busy highway.
Kashmir is divided between India and Pakistan, with both claiming the entire region.
Rebel groups have been fighting for the independence of Kashmir from India or its merger with Pakistan since 1989. India accuses Pakistan of arming and training rebels. Pakistan says it only provides moral and diplomatic support to the rebels.
More than 45,000 people, mostly civilians, have died since the armed rebellion broke out in the late 1980s.
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