#1 Indian Army kills 11 Pakistani terrorists
Six were shot dead after crossing the Line of Control. The soldiers intercepted the infiltrators on the Indian side of the LOC very close to where the cross-Kashmir bus service drives past.
Colonel Batra, also said that five other militants were killed after a clash with troops in the northern town of Handwara, also close to the LoC.
The fighting was said to have broken out after the soldiers raided a suspected militant hideout late on Thursday evening.
In another incident, two militants were killed in a gunbattle with Indian soldiers in Poonch district, Indian authorities said |
Indian troops shot dead five militants on Thursday in two separate clashes in held Kashmir, a police spokesman said. He said the five were killed during two gunbattles in the central district of Budgam and northern Baramulla district. "The fighting broke out when Indian troops raided the two militant hideouts," the spokesman said. The violence came as a second bus run linking the two Kashmirs started quietly on Thursday between Srinagar, and Muzaffarabad. Four militants groups have threatened to attack the service.