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SRINAGAR: Three activists were killed during a meeting with security forces in the Pulwama district of South Kashmir in Jammu and Kashmir on Friday while a civilian died in a fire near the dating site. A soldier was killed in a shootout in the Kupwara border district while three men were injured during a grenade attack at Shopian
. Chatpora in Pulwama district this afternoon after receiving information on the presence of militants there. As security personnel carried out door-to-door searches, activists were hiding in a house. The fire was returned by the troops, triggering a meeting. In the ensuing four-hour shootout, three militants were killed. The house, where militants were shooting at the troops, was damaged during the shooting.
The officer said that the identity of the killed militants was being checked.
Earlier, there would have been reports. Junaid Sehrai were present in the house. However, the police canceled these reports. Jhatt, who escaped from custody in a Srinagar hospital last February, was identified by the police as one of the attackers of the Shujaat Bukhari badbadination on June 14th.
After the shooting began in the area, the residents, especially the youths, took roads and tried to walk to the meeting site. When they were intercepted by security personnel, the youths threw stones at them. The retaliatory security men fired smoke shells, pellets and bullets to disperse them. At least a dozen protesters were injured in the action of security forces. The wounded were transported to the hospital, where a badly injured boy, Faizan Ahmad Khan, succumbed to his injuries.
After the death of a youth, tension gripped the region and many young people took to the road to protest. Meanwhile, another activist was killed in the forest area of Trehgam in the Kupwara border district in the morning. The identity of the militant killed and the holding to which he owed allegiance were being established. Activists also launched a grenade against an army patrol in the Shopian district of southern Kashmir in the morning.
"Activists threw a grenade at a group of armed men while they were opening Good Will Public School in Keegam Village." Shopian this morning, the militants also fired on Men in the army. In the grenade and shooting attack, three men from the army were wounded and hospitalized, "said a police official. He said that the men of the army have shown maximum restraint to avoid damaging the civilian population and students.
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