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Two militants killed in a gunfight in Bandipora

Srinagar: Two militants were killed in an encounter with the Indian Armed Forces in Gurez sector in north Kashmir district of Bandipora on Thursday.

Official sources said after noticing suspicious movement in Kundalwan forest in Gurez yesterday evening, security forces launched a search operation in the area, a news report in Kashmir Reader, a newspaper based in Srinagar, said.

They said a contact was established with a group of militants in the woods this morning.

When asked to surrender, they said the militants fired at armed forces with automatic weapons. The forces also retaliated ensuing an encounter, they said, adding two militants were so far killed in the exchange of fire.

The operation was still going on when the reports last came in, they added.

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