NEW DELHI, July 16, 2024 (BSS/AFP) - Troops in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir hunted Tuesday for militants after several soldiers were critically wounded in ferocious gun battles, with Indian media reporting four had died. The Indian army's 16 Corps said security forces had launched an operation Monday evening in Doda district. The clashes come a day after the Indian army killed three suspected militants in Kashmir's Kupwara district on Sunday. Earlier this month, gunmen killed five soldiers after ambushing an army convoy, and two other soldiers and six suspected militants were killed in separate clashes. In June, nine Indian Hindu pilgrims were killed and dozens wounded when a gunman opened fire on a bus carrying them from a shrine in the southern Reasi area.
