Three suspected Islamist militants were killed on Saturday in two separate gunbattles in Indian-held Kashmir (IHK), army and police officials said. In the first incident, two militants were killed as they crossed from Pakistan into IHK near Krishna Ghati in Punch district, approximately 240 kilometres northwest of Jammu, confirmed Lt Col SD Goswami, an army spokesman in Jammu. He said that soldiers on a pre-dawn patrol of the border district had spotted the two militants sneaking into the Indian side in the forested mountain area. A gunfight erupted and the two men were killed, he added.
Elsewhere in IHK, a suspected militant was killed in a gunbattle in Gool, around 100 kilometres north of Jammu, said local police officer, JL Sharma.