Five militants and a policeman have died in fresh clashes in insurgency-hit Indian-held Kashmir, officials said on Thursday. Three of the militants were killed early on Thursday after crossing into the Indian-administered part of the disputed Himalayan region from the Pakistani zone, army spokesman Colonel Manjinder Singh said. “They were killed as they entered our territory,” he said, adding that reinforcements were sent to northern Kupwara district and its section of the Line of Control – the de facto border that splits Kashmir. In a separate clash late on Wednesday, two militants and a policeman were killed in the region’s southern Doda district, police said in a statement. Police identified one of the slain militants as a district commander for the hardline militants group Hizbul Mujahedin, which wants all of Kashmir to be under Pakistani rule.