20 killed in J&K encounter

JAMMU, NOV. 27. Militants of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba today ambushed an Army patrol triggering a fierce gunbattle which killed 12 security personnel, including a Major, and eight ultras in the mountains of Surankote in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district.

As a patrol party, on a search operation, of troops approached the militants' hideout, it was ambushed. The troops hit back setting off a fierce encounter that killed 10 jawans, a Major, a Junior Commissioned Officer and eight militants. Six persons were wounded, four of them seriously, in the encounter.

Additional troops have been rushed to the area to assist their colleagues in the battle against the militants which was on till last reports came in.

- PTI

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