Indian occupation troops on Monday gunned down three suspected mujahideen who infiltrated into Indian occupied Kashmir from Azad Kashmir while nine others including two policemen died elsewhere, officials said. The three suspected mujahideen were shot dead in the southern district of Rajouri near the line-of-control (LoC) which acts as a de facto border, 179 kilometres (112 miles) north-west of occupied Jammu, an Indian defence ministry spokesman said. An occupation police force officer said 25 suspected mujahideen attempting to cross into Indian occupied Kashmir had been killed by security forces in the past three weeks.
In further violence, suspected mujahideen overnight Sunday shot dead two Kashmiri policemen at a wedding party in Doda district, a police spokesman said. He added that an Indian occupation forces soldier and a suspected mujahid also died during a clash in the same region. Suspected mujahideen also shot dead a trader and a farmer in the northern Baramulla district, he said. In two separate clashes, Indian occupation troops killed three suspected mujahideen in southern Pulwama and Anantnag districts during the previous 24 hours.