 Six militants were killed in an encounter with Indian troops in Kashmir early on Saturday, an Indian Defence Ministry spokesman said. The encounter took place when the army launched an operation at Magam-Kokernag area, the spokesman said. The militants were believed to be members of the banned Lashker-e-Taiba group. On Friday, the Indian army ambushed militants it learned were hiding in a village near the Pakistan frontier and killed two of them. SM Sahai, a senior police officer, said that the militants had been killed in Dassal village on Thursday night. He said the militants belonged to Jaish-e-Mohammed. More than 40,000 people have died in Kashmir since 1989, according to official figures. Separatists put the toll between 80,000 and 100,000. |