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.
Militants early Sunday gunned down a special police officer in north Kashmir's Sopore town, 54 kms from capital Srinagar, in Baramulla district.
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.
The grenade was aimed at a paramilitary patrol party, but missed the target.
The IEDs, weighing 70 kg and 60 kg and kept in polythene bags on the roadside, were detected by BSF's 55 Battalion's road opening party at Palhalan, 30 km from Srinagar.
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 top Lashkar-e-Tayiba militant was killed in a six-hour-long gun-battle with security forces in Sopore town of north Kashmir Baramulla district, the police said.
They are being questioned about their involvement in the killing of former Home Minister Mushtaq Ahmad Lone last year and some suicide attacks on security forces.
Of these, 6,221 were injured due to pellets, 368 due to bullets, four due to pava shells and 2,449 suffered other injuries, the J-K CM said.
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and three of his cabinet colleagues are among 44 candidates whose fate will be decided on Tuesday in the third phase of polling in 16 seats spread across Budgam, Pulwama and Baramulla districts.
"At about 9.15 pm, a police party at Mirgund in Pattan signalled a cab to stop but two militants inside the vehicle started firing, which was retaliated," a police official said.
'The surrendered terrorist in custody identified himself as Ali Babar Patra of Pakistan's Punjab. He has admitted he is a member of the LeT'
General Officer Commanding (GoC) of the Army's Srinagar-based 15 Corps or Chinar Corps, Lt Gen D P Pandey, said there have been some infiltration attempts, but unlike previous years they have not been 'adequately supported' by ceasefire violations.
Operations at the Delhi airport remained normal. However, three flights were returned or diverted to the Delhi airport due to bad weather in Chandigarh, Varanasi and Lucknow on Tuesday night.
Mostly of the militants belonged to Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Tayiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad.
Arif will be competing in Slalom and Giant Slalom events during the Games to be held from February 4 to 20.
As many as 160 terrorists were killed and 102 arrested in Jammu and Kashmir in 2019.
Hardline Hurriyat Conference leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani was on Thursday placed under house arrest, a day ahead of his scheduled visit to Tral town in south Kashmir Pulwama district.
The constable fired several rounds, killing the sub-inspector on the spot.
The three-year-old son of a former militant, who was critically wounded in an attack in north Kashmir's Sopore town on Saturday evening, succumbed to injuries in a hospital in Srinagar.
The SPO was on duty at Bandipora when the militants attacked his 30-year-old wife Shaha and 8-year old daughter Misra.
Major Shikhar Thapa was fired upon by a jawan in a fit of rage following an altercation.
Army personnel on Sunday recovered a huge cache of arms and ammunition from a militant hideout in a forest area of Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla District.
2 other jawans were injured in Pakistani shelling in Naushera sector of Rajouri district.
An encounter broke out between the army and militants near the Line of Control on Friday in Uri sector of north Kashmir.
The slain policemen were identified as Ghulam Hassan and Ghulam Rasool. The injured personnel was taken to a hospital for treatment and his condition is stated to be stable, the official said.
Awan, a resident of Mohalla Miana in Mianwali area of Punjab in Pakistan, was indoctrinated by Lakhvi at his residence in Rawalpindi, officials said.
As soon as the operation ended, local residents started pelting stones at the security forces, he said, adding the clashes were going on till reports last came in.
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