HELD SRINAGAR: Indian soldiers in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) killed two suspected fighters on Wednesday, the army said, the latest clashes during campaigning for local elections in the disputed region.
Kashmir is gearing up for the first local assembly elections in a decade, with voting in the three-phased poll beginning on September 18. The Indian army said “two terrorists were neutralised”, a term they use indicating the men had been killed.
The clashes took place Kathua, in the territory´s southern district of Jammu, which is majority Hindu.