Three Indian occupation army soldiers and a wanted commander of a major group were among seven people killed in the latest violence in Indian occupied Kashmir, police said on Sunday. A gun battle near the southern town of Shopian, 50km south of the occupied Srinagar, left two Indian occupation soldiers dead and another injured, a police spokesman said. Further south in Poonch district, Indian occupation troops shot dead a commander of Hizbul Mujahideen, the spokesman said.
He identified the dead man as Khalid Chitrali, alias Abu Usman. "Khalid was one of the most wanted freedom fighters in Poonch," he said.
Another Hizbul Mujahideen freedom fighter was shot dead during a clash with Indian occupation troops in the neighbouring district of Udhampur, police said, while freedom fighters gunned down an occupation soldier in Doda district overnight. Police said suspected freedom fighters shot dead a man and a Sikh in their houses in Doda and Udhampur districts overnight.