11 killed in Kashmir police HQ gunbattle

Police in Indian-ruled Kashmir's summer capital said their main control centre in the state was back in their control after a…

Police in Indian-ruled Kashmir's summer capital said their main control centre in the state was back in their control after a bloody attack by separatist guerrillas.

A senior police official said nine Indian policemen and two attackers had been killed in the Friday night attack on the complex in the city of Srinagar.

Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mr Farooq Abdullah, quoted by the Press Trust of India news agency, said that two of the militants who stormed the control room had been killed and two others had escaped.

"This morning we recovered seven more bodies of policemen and two bodies of militants in and around the police control room complex," the senior police official said, adding that the army had been called in to search the complex for attackers.

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"The search operation is over. Two militants who entered the complex have been killed."

Police said earlier that two policemen had been killed.

Reuters