According to the army, three suspected militants were killed by soldiers in India-administered Jammu and Kashmir. This is the most recent event in a string of strikes in the disputed northern state.
Muslim-dominated Since India and Pakistan gained independence from British rule in 1947, Kashmir has been split between them.
Chinar Corps, the Indian army’s intelligence wing, reported late on Sunday that “weapons and other war-like stores” had been found and that three persons had been killed in a “anti-infiltration operation” in the Kupwara district of Kashmir.
Both India and Pakistan have waged three wars to capture the Himalayan area, and both have complete claims to Kashmir.
Islamabad and New Delhi accuse one another of inciting militancy and espionage in order to weaken the other.
Since 1989, rebel organizations have been waging an insurgency, calling for the territory’s independence or union with Pakistan.
Tens of thousands of rebels, troops, and civilians have died in this fight.
Five troops were slain when terrorists assaulted an army convoy earlier this month. Six suspected militants and two other soldiers also perished in separate instances.
When a shooter opened fire on a bus bringing Indian Hindu pilgrims from a shrine in the southern Reasi region in June, nine of them died and numerous more were injured.
It was the first attack on Hindu pilgrims in Kashmir since 2017, when gunmen killed seven people in another bus ambush. It was also one of the bloodiest attacks in recent memory.
