Quake-affected people in Uri Monday observed a shutdown and staged demonstrations alleging inadequate relief by the Jammu and Kashmir government.
One of the terrorists was a lecturer by profession who had abdicated the government service and had joined the outfit.
No injuries were reported in the incident, defence sources said.
A self-styled chief operational commander of al-Burq militant outfit has been killed in an encounter with the Jammu and Kashmir police
The town will observe a complete shutdown on Friday.
Militant infrastructure across the Line of Control in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir is intact, and that is evident from the recent infiltration bids in Uri sector of Baramulla district, the army said on Friday.
The encounter occurred in the jungles of the east Watlab area in Baramulla district of north Kashmir.
Colonel G S Sarna was killed in the encounter.
An encounter with militants was continuing in Baramulla.
In one of the biggest such seizures in recent times, security forces unearthed a huge arms haul, including 60 kg of RDX, nine assault rifles and 11 pistols, at a house in Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday, police said.
The terrorist, identified as Ali Baba, was shot dead in Baramulla.
The encounter broke out when troops confronted a group of militants trying to sneak into the valley from across the border.
The Lashkar owned responsibility immediately after the attack.
A senior police officer said that the family comprising three men, four women and ten children crossed over to the Indian side of the Line of Control in north Kashmir's Uri sector on Friday afternoon to return to their homes. The family had crossed over to PoK in 1990 and had been living there since.
A mentally-challenged boy was shot dead by security personnel after he allegedly tried to intrude into a J&K army camp in the wee hours on Friday.
School children also came out of their classrooms as parents started, making frantic calls to schools asking for the safety of their children.
There was no movement of security forces at the time of the incident, the sources said.
Two militants, reportedly wearing army uniforms, tried to gain entry into the office of the municipal council at Kraliteng.
The stone-pelting by the agitated youths occurred several times during the day but each time their attempt to block the movement of traffic was thwarted by the police.
Acting on a tip-off, four army columns were launched for search in Sheeri village in the district on Sunday, a defence spokesman said on Monday.
An army colonel was killed and two soldiers injured in a gunbattle with militants in Pattan area of Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday.
Three members of a family and a child were among the seven people killed while security forces seized huge quantities of arms and ammunition across Jammu and Kashmir during the past 24 hours, an official spokesman said on Sunday.
Three militants and a woman were killed and two army jawans injured in an encounter in Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir, a defence spokesperson said in Srinagar Friday.
The highway was closed on Saturday due to heavy snowfall and landslides.
Security forces killed four militants, including two in a 50-hour gunbattle in Sopore town of Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said Saturday.
Police was interrogating him to find out if he has any links with the serial blasts in Srinagar and Mumbai and to find which terrorist outfit he belonged to, he said.
A security patrol was blown up in the crowded Shah Faisal market in Sopore, 55 kms from Srinagar, at around 1310 IST, the sources said.
On sustained questioning, the SSP said, the trio admitted they are working for Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist outfit and were luring young boys into militancy.
Four other associates of Sajjad were killed in a two-day long operation after the army intercepted them while they were trying to sneak in.
Acting on specific info, army jawans raided a forest 70 km away from Srinagar and recovered the explosives.
In one of the biggest arms hauls in recent times, the Indian Army on Sunday seized 18 AK-47 rifles and five pistols from a militant hideout in forests near the Line of Control in Kupwara district of poll-bound Jammu and Kashmir.
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