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Srinagar -- The Indian army on Saturday said it killed three militants and foiled an infiltration bid on the border with neighboring Pakistan.
The gunfight Saturday comes two day's after Indian security forces gunned down three top militants of Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) on the suburbs of Srinagar, the capital of Indian-administered Kashmir.
Police in Srinagar said Thursday's operation was launched on specific information about the presence of a group of foreign militants in a house on the outskirts of capital Srinagar.
Early Saturday, police said, troops foiled an infiltration bid on the Line of Control (LoC), the de-facto border with neighboring Pakistan in the northern sector of Uri, killing three militants.
The troops noticed a group of militants trying to sneak into Indian side from the Pakistan territory, said Lt. Col. J.S.Brar, the spokesman.
"The group of militants was challenged and so far three militants have been eliminated. The operation is still on," he said.
"Two of the militants were highly trained. One of them was an IED expert," a police spokesman said.
Police early Friday found the body of another militant while clearing the debris of the house destroyed in the daylong gunfight.
The JeM said the three militants were part of a group of six suicide attackers.
"The group had been assigned to carry out attacks at two army installations in Srinagar," Sajjad Afghani, the operational commander told a local news agency.
Early this month, an Indian defense spokesman said that 42 militants were killed in Kashmir in September.
Violence in Kashmir has killed 108 and left hundreds wounded since June this year.
A bloody separatist conflict has killed more than 43,000 in more than two decades, according to the official count. However, various rights groups say the figure is twice that.
The gunfight Saturday comes two day's after Indian security forces gunned down three top militants of Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) on the suburbs of Srinagar, the capital of Indian-administered Kashmir.
Police in Srinagar said Thursday's operation was launched on specific information about the presence of a group of foreign militants in a house on the outskirts of capital Srinagar.
Early Saturday, police said, troops foiled an infiltration bid on the Line of Control (LoC), the de-facto border with neighboring Pakistan in the northern sector of Uri, killing three militants.
The troops noticed a group of militants trying to sneak into Indian side from the Pakistan territory, said Lt. Col. J.S.Brar, the spokesman.
"The group of militants was challenged and so far three militants have been eliminated. The operation is still on," he said.
"Two of the militants were highly trained. One of them was an IED expert," a police spokesman said.
Police early Friday found the body of another militant while clearing the debris of the house destroyed in the daylong gunfight.
The JeM said the three militants were part of a group of six suicide attackers.
"The group had been assigned to carry out attacks at two army installations in Srinagar," Sajjad Afghani, the operational commander told a local news agency.
Early this month, an Indian defense spokesman said that 42 militants were killed in Kashmir in September.
Violence in Kashmir has killed 108 and left hundreds wounded since June this year.
A bloody separatist conflict has killed more than 43,000 in more than two decades, according to the official count. However, various rights groups say the figure is twice that.
