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Army captain, four militants killed in gun battle in Rajouri

Mukhtar Ahmad in Srinagar

Four terrorists and an army captain were killed in a fierce gun battle in Rajouri town, Jammu, which raged from Wednesday night to Thursday morning.

On receiving specific information that a group of seven terrorists had attacked a high-security VIP residential complex, troops cordoned off a major portion of Ward No 1 in Rajouri and mounted searches.

As the searches began, the security forces came under heavy fire from the terrorists hiding in the complex, housing senior district officers, including the district magistrate and the district police chief.

"The militants hurled grenades and fired indiscriminately from automatic weapons killing an army captain on the spot," said a police official in Rajouri reached by telephone.

The troops retaliated and the gun battle continued for several hours.

Police sources said the troops finally mortar-blasted the house, where the militants were holed up, during the early hours of Thursday. Thereafter, sources added, the firing stopped.

Bodies of four militants have been found so far.

"This was one of the fiercest gun battles in Rajouri town," said an army officer wishing anonymity.

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