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Guerrilla killed in Kashmir gunfight

5 Dariya News

Srinagar 30-Sep-2014

A separatist guerrilla was killed in a gunfight with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Kupwara Tuesday, police said."Acting on specific information regarding presence of militants, security forces launched a joint operation in Afan Warnow village of Lolab area of Kupwara," a police officer told IANS here. "The joint party of 18 Rashtriya Rifles and Kupwara police was fired upon, triggering a gunfight during which an unidentified militant was killed," he said, adding an AK-47 rifle, five magazines, 60 rounds, two cell phones, a GPS and an under-barrel grenade launcher (UBGL) grenade have been recovered from the site.