Two soldiers, including an officer, and three insurgents have been killed in a fierce gunfight in the Kupwara district on the north Kashmir frontier, the Indian army said Monday. An army spokesman said the gunfight erupted Saturday during a search operation in the forested area of Hatmulla, near the Line of Control that marks the border between India and Pakistan in Kashmir. "The search party of the army was fired upon by holed-up militants, resulting in the death of an army major and a trooper," Lt. Col. J.S. Brar said. "In the resultant encounter, the troops gunned down three terrorists," he was quoted as saying by Reuters.
