SRINAGAR, India, Jan 14 (AFP): Two soldiers and two militants were killed Thursday during a gunbattle in Indian Kashmir, a police spokesman said. Based on a tip, security forces raided a home in the village of Balpora, some 30 kilometers (18 miles) southwest of Srinagar, the summer capital of Kashmir, said police. "As soon as the house was ringed by soldiers the militants opened fire with automatic weapons and killed two soldiers and injured another," said the spokesman.
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