Two militants killed in Sopore gunfight

Two militants were killed in an anti-militancy operation in north Kashmir’s Sopore on Thursday.

A Srinagar-based police spokesman said that the operation was launched on Wednesday night. “In the quick operation, the police zeroed in on the two militants in Sopore and eliminated them,” said the spokesman.

The operation was carried out jointly by the Army’s 22 Rashtriya Rifles (RR), CRPF’s 177 and 179 Battalions in Sopore’s Mir Mohalla.

The police said the two slain militants were involved in a grenade attack on the Sopore police station on Wednesday afternoon. Four policemen were injured in the attack.