Firefight Kills 4 in Kashmir

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NEW DELHI — A colonel in India’s army, a police officer and two militants died Tuesday in a gun battle in Kashmir, the police said. Indian forces had surrounded a house where militants were thought to be visiting, in the Pulwama district of India-administered Kashmir, when the troops were attacked with grenades and Kalashnikov fire. Col. Munindra Nath Rai, a highly decorated officer and commander of the local Indian Army unit, led the operation and was killed. He had been awarded a gallantry medal the day before, Indian news media reported.