Clashes between Indian forces and suspected militants killed 14 people in Held Kashmir on Monday. Ten militants and a soldier died in three incidents in Kashmir, the Indian army said, while police said they had killed three militants, including a senior leader, in two other encounters in the Jammu portion of the state. The troops came under fire as they approached two houses, starting an all-night gun battle. A soldier and a suspected militant were killed, Juneja said. Later, the army said it had found the body of a second militant. Three soldiers were wounded, one critically, he said. Also, Indian troops identified a group of suspected militants crossing the LoC late in the Gulmarg area on Sunday. The ensuing fight left four infiltrators killed, Juneja said. Later on Monday, two suspected militants were killed in a gun battle with paramilitary soldiers in Wangund, an eastern suburb of Srinagar, said Dileep Singh, a spokesman of the Central Reserve Police Force. A soldier was injured in the brief gun battle, he said.
Elsewhere, police raided a rebel hide-out in the mountainous Sharekhi district late on Sunday, killing a senior militant, identified as Tariq Usman Sheikh, the district commander of the Hizbul Mujahedeen group, said local police chief Manohar Singh. Sharekhi. In another incident, police surrounded a group of militants in the Tramda Nari area, about 190 kilometres northwest of Jammu. Two militants were killed and police continued to battle others, said area superintendent Farooq Khan. Reinforcements have been called in, he said. Two suspected militants who laid siege to a mosque in Indian held Kashmir have been killed after a nightlong firefight with Indian security forces, an official said on Monday. The rebels had fled to the mosque after soldiers raided their hideout in northern Bandipora town late on Sunday, sparking a gun battle in which a soldier was killed and two others were injured.