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SRINAGAR: Families of two teenage boys and a young man killed in India-occupied Kashmir on Wednesday by government forces during an alleged firefight have denied they were militants.
Police said the three were killed in a 20-hour gun battle on the outskirts of Srinagar after they were cornered inside a home on Tuesday.
“Repeated announcements were made to the hiding terrorists to lay down their illegal weapons and surrender,” police said in a statement.
“Instead, the hiding terrorists fired continuously upon the searching party.”
But relatives disputed the story and protested outside a police building in Srinagar where the bodies were being kept.
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Kashmir’s Hokersar encounter: Families of slain trio hold protest, claim they were innocentKashmir, Kashmir -IOK 2020-12-31, by Editor Comments Off 5
The families of three ‘militants’ who were killed in a gunfight with the security forces in Hokersar area on the outskirts of Srinagar staged a protest on Wednesday, claiming that their kin had no link with the militancy.
The police and the army have claimed that the trio were militants who refused to surrender during a gunfight that raged since last evening in Hokersar area.
Srinagar, December 30
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