Seven killed in occupied Kashmir

Seven people, including a woman, were killed in occupied Kashmir, where occupation security forces recovered rockets and explosives ahead of India's Republic Day on Monday, officials said on Saturday.
In one attack, two suspected freedom fighters were killed by occupation security forces in Poonch district in southern Kashmir overnight, a occupation police spokesman said.
"The two were planning to carry out a suicide attack on some vital installation in the district," he said.
Another freedom fighter was shot dead in the southern Doda district, the spokesman said.
Suspected freedom fighters shot dead three people, including a teenage student and a woman in Poonch and Anantnag districts overnight, occupation police said.
The third was a freedom fighter of hard-line Lashkar-e-Taiba, occupation police said, adding he was killed by members of dominant freedom fighter group Hizbul Mujahedin during an inter-group clash.
An occupation trooper of India's Border Security Force (BSF) was shot dead on Saturday by suspected freedom fighters at point blank range in Hyderpora area of occupied Srinagar of occupied Kashmir, occupation police said.
Also in occupied Srinagar, the BSF recovered 45 kilograms (100 pounds) of the deadly RDX (research developed explosives), eight rockets and other arms and ammunition, BSF spokesman Tirtha Acharya told AFP.
He said the explosives were recovered near Bakshi stadium, the venue for the main Republic Day celebrations in occupied Srinagar on Monday.
"The explosives were stored in women's hospital with the aim of disrupting the celebrations on Monday," he said.
Intelligence reports indicated the rockets were to be used in attacks in and around occupied Srinagar on the eve of Republic Day, said Acharya.
Freedom fighters fighting to secede occupied Kashmir from India and join it with neighbouring Pakistan or remain independent have fired rockets at the venue in the past, causing casualties.
"The searches are more extensive around the venues for celebrations," said Acharya.
The main event in the violence-wracked state will be held in the winter capital occupied Jammu.
The Jammu sports stadium, which is to host the official celebrations on Monday, has been declared out of bounds and all roads leading to it have been sealed, a occupation police spokesman said.
Occupation Security personnel on Saturday combed the stadium with mine detectors and other sophisticated equipment to detect any explosive devices, he said.
Occupation troops also raided scores of houses in Bhatindi on the outskirts of occupied Jammu and took six youths into preventive custody, he added.