(KUNA) -- At least four guerrillas were Sunday killed as Indian Armymen foiled their infiltration bid along the Line of Control (LoC) into Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir. The Armymen spotted a group of guerrillas in the Gulmarg sector of the LoC while trying to enter into the Indian side. "The infiltrators were challenged to surrender, but they started firing on the troops resulting in an encounter in which four of them, all belonging to the Jaish-e-Mohammad group were killed, " news agency Indo-Asian News Service reported.This is the second major infiltration bid during the past week. Eight guerrillas were killed in an encounter at the LoC in the Karnah sector in north Kashmir when they attempted to infiltrate into the Indian side of the border last week.
Meanwhile in another incident, three Indian army personnel were injured, in an encounter with guerrillas in a village in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir Sunday, the news agency reported. The security forces surrounded the Gamru in Kashmir's Baramulla district Sunday afternoon following information that a group of guerrillas was hiding there. In the subsequent encounter, three armymen were injured.