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Heavy gunfire heard as operation to flush out gunmen in Kashmir enters third day

PAMPORE, JAMMU AND KASHMIR, INDIA (Reuters) —Indian security forces battled for a third day amid heavy gunfire on Monday (February 22) to clear militants who stormed a government building in the disputed Kashmir region and killed six people, officials and a witness said. After a lull in fighting overnight, army commandos and police launched a fresh offensive to clear the five-storey training institute captured by the militants. Gunfire and explosions could be heard at the […]