SRINAGAR, Oct 13: Seven Mujahideen and three others were killed in violence in occupied Kashmir while Indian and Pakistani troops on Monday exchanged artillery fire over the border, police said.

Three of the Mujahideen were killed in Gagrian village in southern Poonch district late on Sunday, police said.

Two more Mujahideen were shot dead in the district of Rajouri by troops of the paramilitary Border Security Force (BSF) late on Sunday, police said, adding a BSF officer who was injured during the gunbattle also died.

Another Mujahid was killed by the army in the northwestern Kupwara district.

Meanwhile a woman and her eight-year-old son were killed when suspected Kashmiris fired rockets at the house of a Hindu village defence committee member in the village of Chaklas in southern Udhampur district, police said.

Police also recovered a bullet-ridden body of a freedom fighter Abdullah Saif in the village of Nomblam in Pulwama district on Monday, police said.

Meanwhile, Indian and Pakistani troops exchanged heavy fire along the LoC in the northwestern Gurez sector of Kupwara district on Monday, police said.

“The shelling sparked panic in the Gurez area and even disrupted annual matriculation examination,” a police spokesman said.

He blamed Pakistani troops for opening “unprovoked fire” that was “effectively returned” by the Indian troops. “The shelling forced residents to take cover in ground floors and underground bunkers,” he said.—AFP