Three Kashmir combatants and an Indian soldier killed in separated shootings in Kashmir administered by India.
At least three suspicious rebel combatants and an Indian soldier have been killed in separated shootings in Cashmiro administered by India less than a week after Interior Minister Amit Shah visited the territory in dispute.
The Indian army said on Saturday that Indian soldiers killed three fighters in a shooting that began Wednesday in a remote forest in Kishwar in southern Kashmir.
The main official Brigadier of the Indian Army, JBS Rathi, said the troops had shown “great tactical insight.”
“In the shooting, three terrorists were neutralized,” journalists told reporters in a commonly used term for the rebels opposed to the Indian government in Kashmir.
Weapons and “war shops” recovered from the site, the body of White Knights of the Army published on the social media platform X.
A soldier was murdered in a separate incident on Friday night in the Almbani district along the control line (LOC), the de facto border that reduces Indian Kaunder in two.
The White Knight’s body said that in X troops an infiltration attempt had “frustrated” there.
The majority of Muslim majority have divided between Indian nuclear weapons rivals and Pakistan since their independence in 1947, and both claim the territory in its entirety but that governs only part of it.
India has an estimate of 500,000 soldiers deployed in the territory after an armed uprising against the Indian government in the late 1980s.
Thousands of people, most of them civilians from Kashmir, have been killed as rebel groups have fought against the Indian forces, seeking independence for Kashmir or their fusion with Pakistan.
In 2019, a report from the United Nations High Commissioner Office for Human Rights accused India of human rights violations in Kashmir and requested a commission of accusations. The report occurred almost a year after the then Head of Human Rights of the UN, Sore R’ad al Hussein, requested international investigation into abuse in the Muslim majority region.
Last month, four police officers and two suspended rebels were killed in the region in a clash that also injured several police officers.
The territory has been similar since 2019 when Prime Minister Narendra Modi ended the semi -autonomy of the region and drastically stopped dissent, civil freedoms and the freedoms of the media while intense military operations.
Thousands of additional troops, including special forces, deployed in mountainous areas of the South last year after a series of mortal rebel attacks that killed more than 50 soldiers about three years.
India regularly blames Pakistan for pushing the rebels through the Loc to launch attacks against the Indian forces.
Islamabad denies the accusation, saying that it only supports Kashmir’s fight for self -determination.
