Srinagar, Aug. 9 -- Two soldiers of Army's elite counter insurgency unit were killed and two others were injured in an ongoing gunbattle in Kulgam district of Jammu and Kashmir as the operation to find terrorists entered ninth day today.
The encounter, which started on August 1 at Akhal forest in Kulgam is turning out as the longest anti militancy operations in the Valley in recent years.
Officials said intense exchange of fire brokeout between militants and security forces last night when the joint teams moved in the dense forest to flush out the hiding terrorist . The small team of Army, they said, came under sudden fire from terrorists, resulting in injuries to four soldiers, two of whom succumbed.
" The injured jawans were airlifted ...