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Two militants, two CRPF men, three policemen killed in Pulwama gunfight

Srinagar: The death toll in the ongoing gunfight between militants and government forces in Pulwama has mounted to seven with the killing of two militants.

DGP S P Vaid said that a policeman, two SPOs, two CRPF men and two militants have been killed in the operation so far.

Militant outfit Jaish-e-Mohammad, earlier, claimed the responsibility of the attack on District Police Lines Pulwama that left two CRPF troopers and a policeman dead and six others injured on Saturday.

Jaish-e-Mohammed, abbreviated as JeM is a Deobandi militant group active in Kashmir. The group’s primary motive is to separate Kashmir from India and merge it into Pakistan. It has carried out several attacks primarily in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. It also maintained close relations with Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and continues to be allied to them.

The gunfight was triggered after militants, believed to be two in number, stormed the DPL Pulwama early Saturday morning. In a Fidayeen attack (suicide attack) on the District Police Lines (DPL), 2 policemen were killed and six others have been critically injured in Pulwama district of the Kashmir valley.

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