Stage set for tomorrow’s polling in high profile Udhampur LS seat amid high security
Jammu and Kashmir has five Lok Sabha constituencies and each one will go to polls in separate phases because of security reasons.
A woman civilian was killed in a cross-firing between security forces and militants in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag district on Saturday, police said.
"Security forces were fired at when they launched an operation in Batpora village after a tip-off about the militants hiding in a house," the police said in a statement here."
"In the cross firing, the woman was wounded and later succumbed to her injuries."
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The statement said: "Some militants are still holed-up in the house. Efforts are ongoing to take out the civilians."
"The militants are using the civilians as human shield," it added.
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