Three days before the area goes to polls, suspected militants gunned down three persons including a sarpanch, his son and a village headman in two adjoining villages of south Kashmir Tral in Pulwama district.
Bodies of all the five soldiers were flown to their home towns after the wreath-laying ceremonies, the spokesman said.
The army had to had to aim at the crowd when jawans claimed to have been fired upon from the other side.
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