he gunfight raged in Setkipora Bijbehara.

Majid Jahangir
Tribune News Service
Srinagar, November 23

Six militants were killed in a gunfight in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Friday morning, police said.

The gunfight raged in Setkipora Bijbehara when security forces launched a cordon and search operation in the area after an input about the militants’ presence around midnight.

“As the CASO was under way the militants hiding inside the area fired indiscriminately at the forces triggering a gunfight. In the gunfight six militants were killed,” a police officer said.

One of the militants was identified as Azad Malik of the LeT. He was an accused in the Shujaat Bukhari killing case. All other five slain militants are locals and have been identified as Unais Shafi, Shahid Bashir, Basit Istiyaq, Aqib Najar and Firdous Najar.