Security forces on Tuesday foiled a grenade attack on them in Doda district and caught one militant during the attempt, officials said.
The 3 LeT militants were killed in the operation late Wednesday night.
Troops recovered the explosives along with detonators buried in a field near the temple during a sanitisation operation.
Five workers involved in road clearance work, who went missing on Friday evening after a snow slide hit the Jawahar Tunnel on the Jammu-Srinagar highway, could not be traced and are presumed dead.
Intense clashes had rocked Kashmir Valley in 2016 following the death of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani in July that year, resulting in the death of over 85 people.
A Hizbul Mujahideen area commander has been killed while another commander have been arrested along with three other persons in Udhampur and Doda districts of Jammu and Kashmir since Monday night.
Masood was the financial chief and senior commander.
Surrendered HUJI militant Mohammad Amin Choppan told of special training camps to teach militants how to cross fences at India Pakistan border.
A Special Task Force of police seized the explosives and detonators from a hideout near a school in Ramban area early Saturday morning.
The incident occurred at Dabbamore, about 45 km from Jammu.
On specific information, a joint team of Jammu police and SOG apprehended Hizbul militant Anwar Shah of Ramban tehsil in Doda district from Krishna Nagar area of the city Tuesday evening where he had taken shelter in a house, they said.
Hizbul Mujahideen Section Commander Liaquat Hussain Bhat alias Minta informed about the consignment during interrogation, the sources added.
Wani, who is involved in several militancy-related cases in Doda district, was taken into custody from Transport Nagar where he had gone to meet his associates to chalk out a plan for carrying out subversive activities in the winter capital.
Hizbul's 'tehsil commander', identified as Abdul Hamid, was gunned down by security forces after a three-hour encounter during an operation in Panjosh village of Banihal area in the wee hours.
Gami, whose family was killed by militants, used to be a special police officer.
One of them was the deputy commander of Harkat-ul-Jehadi-Islami.
Militants also abducted four people.
The militant, identified as Abdul Rehman, was killed in an encounter at Manyal in Rajouri district last night.
The explosives were found in a car in Doda district.
Forty-year-old Shama Begum and her 17-year-old daughter Parveen were taken into custody after were caught talking over wireless with a Hizbul commander.
Gulam Abbas Azad was on his way to Doda city from Soti village in Doda district at the time of the attack.
The yatra was suspended for three hours as explosives experts removed the IED and then checked the entire area all over again, official sources said.
During a routine search in Baderwah town, troops recovered 40 kg of RDX in a lake in Baderwah town, which is surrounded by mountain.
The bus in which they were travelling rolled down a gorge at Banihal in Doda district.
Militants hurled a grenade at the Doda bus stand, which exploded near a passenger bus.
Major Shekhawat and the jawan were killed in an encounter with terrorists in Doda district.
In a separate attack, militants fired two rockets, one of which hit a house close to a police station at Kotranka in Rajouri district killing its owner, Mohammed Sharif, and injuring his wife, two sons and another relative.
His family has made a passionate appeal for his return.
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