Ph.D scholar among two killed in J&K

Two Kashmiri militants, including a Ph.D scholar, were killed in a gunfight with security forces yesterday in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district, police said.

The fighting took place in Shatgund village. The police have not confirmed the identities of the militants. Hizbul commander Manan Bashir Wani — a Ph.D scholar of Aligarh Muslim University, who had joined militancy in January — was trapped in the cordon along with another Kashmiri militant and died, police officials said. (IANS)