Three infiltrators killed in Kashmir

SRINAGAR - Three intruding guerrillas were killed Saturday along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Bandipora district, police here said.

“The alert troops of the army spotted a group of heavily armed infiltrators in Gurez sector of LoC. The intruding terrorists were challenged to surrender but they opened fire at the troops, triggering an encounter in which three terrorists have been killed,” a senior police officer told IANS.

The searches are still going on in the area, even though officials claimed that the infiltration bid had been foiled.