SRINAGAR, Sept 16: At least 12 people including two suspected freedom fighters were killed in violence in occupied Kashmir, officials said on Tuesday.

Mujahideen and troops exchanged fire on Tuesday in the village of Narwani, 55 kilometres south of Srinagar, leaving two Mujahideen and a security force member dead, said BSF spokesman Tirtha Acharya.

The spokesman said one of the Kashmiri fighters had been identified as Abu Umair, a divisional commander of the Lashkar-i-Taiba group.

He was involved in the massacre of 24 Hindus in Nadimarg village of occupied Kashmir in March this year and was also close to one of the slain activists involved in last year’s attack on Akshradham temple in Gujarat,” Mr Acharya said.

Four more soldiers from the paramilitary BSF were injured during the shoot-out, the spokesman said.

In another incident, the BSF shot dead two Kashmiris in Tral, 40 kilometres south of Srinagar.

One had been wanted by authorities and belonged to the dominant Hizbul Mujahideen group.

Overnight, police said Manzoor Ahmed, a 20-year-old Muslim who ran an electrical repair shop in the village of Muran south of Srinagar, was shot dead by Mujahideen.

Suspected Kashmiris abducted another civilian Nazir Rather in the southern village of Pariwan and slit his throat, police said.

A police spokesman in Jammu on Tuesday reported the killing of a Hizbul Mujahideen leader.—AFP