SRINAGAR: Indian forces on Thursday killed at least five suspected Islamist militants, four of them in a gunbattle close to the Line of Control (LoC), a police officer said. Police launched a joint operation with the army after receiving a tip-off that four armed men were around Lachipora village, said area police chief Viplav Kumar. A gunbattle ensued and government forces later found the bodies of four suspected insurgents, Kumar told The Associated Press.Meanwhile on the same day, the army and police killed another suspected militant in Chitragam village, said police officer Imtiaz Hussain. There was no independent confirmation of the incident. Also on Thursday, suspected militants detonated a small landmine as a police patrol walked through Qaimoh village, said Hemant Lohia, a top police official, adding that one police officer had been wounded in the attack. He said that a policeman and a civilian, meanwhile, had been wounded when militants lobbed a hand grenade on Wednesday evening at a police post in the town of Anantnag. At around the same time, Lohia said, militants had shot and critically wounded an activist for the state's ruling pro-India People's Democratic Party in the town of Bijbehara. After initial treatment at a local hospital, the activist was taken to Srinagar for specialised medical care.