Date:06/12/2007 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/12/06/stories/2007120658260100.htm

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Six, including two militants, killed in J&K

SRINAGAR: Six persons have been killed in separate incidents in Jammu and Kashmir, where security forces also apprehended an over ground worker of militants and busted a hideout.

Two Army personnel and two suspected militants of the Lashkar-e-Taiba were killed and two security personnel injured in a 16-hour-long fierce gun battle in Pulwama district, Superintendent of Police Sardar Khan said on Wednesday.

The encounter at Ladhermud village of Tral area started on Tuesday afternoon when militants hiding in a house opened fire on a joint search party of police and the CRPF, injuring two jawans, he said. — PTI