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DODA — After the death of five soldiers in Kathua, four more soldiers including an officer have been killed in Deesa forest area of Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir.

An army official had earlier said that during the initial exchange of fire, some soldiers suffered injuries.

Reports said that four Indian Army soldiers, including a Captain rank officer, who were critically injured in a gunfight with militants on Monday night in Deesa forest area of Doda died in the hospital.

Army said that during a search operation, suspicious movement was observed in Dhari Gote Urarbagi in the Desa forest area.

During the initial exchange of fire, four soldiers sustained injuries and succumbed late Monday night in the hospital.

Reports said that a policeman also suffered injuries during the encounter. The operation is in progress.

On July 8 this month, five soldiers including a JCO were killed and an equal number of soldiers were injured in a militant attack in the Badnota area of Kathua district of Jammu region.

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JAMMU — Four army personnel were killed and six injured on Monday when militants ambushed their vehicle in the remote Machhedi area of Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua district, officials said.

The militants hurled a grenade and opened fire targeting Army vehicles which were on a routine patrol on the Machhedi-Kindli-Malhar road at around 3:30 pm near Badnota village in Lohai Malhar, 150 km from Kathua town.

Security forces retaliated but the militants fled into the nearby forest, the officials said, adding an intermittent exchange of firing was going on between the militants and security forces when the last reports were received.

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SRINAGAR — An encounter broke out between militants and security forces in Machhedi area of Kathua district on Monday.

Official sources quoted by the local news agency GNS said that a joint team of police and security forces came under fire during searches in Machhedi area, which the forces retaliated, triggering a gunfight.

After the gunfight broke out, more reinforcement was sent to the encounter spot, according to the sources.

It is in place to mention here that security forces killed six militants in two separate gunfights in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district, ending operations on Sunday more than 24 hours after they began, even as the Indian Army laid to rest two of its soldiers who were killed in the gunfights on Saturday.

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