Four police officers were killed while two freedom fighters embraced martyrdom in the Indian-Illegally-Occupied Jammu and Kashmir during a drawn-out firefight that also left several police wounded, security forces said.
The Indian army’s Rising Star Corps said in a Saturday social media post that “relentless operations” led to the “elimination of two terrorists”, a term commonly used for freedom fighters in IIOJK.
The clash began Thursday in the rugged and forested area of Kathua in the south of the disputed territory when a police foot patrol was ambushed, leaving four police dead, police chief Nalin Prabhat told reporters late on Friday.
Prabhat claimed the fighters, who were believed to have escaped a cordon by security forces four days earlier, were from Pakistan, without giving further information.
