SRINAGAR, Oct 27: Two Indian troops and two freedom fighters were killed in separate clashes in occupied Kashmir on Thursday, the anniversary of the day Indian forces arrived in the Muslim-majority region in 1947, police said.

The soldiers were killed in a roadside ambush by freedom fighters in Doda early on Thursday, police said.

Doda is the stronghold of the region’s most powerful group, Hizbul Mujahideen which wants Kashmir to secede from India and become part of Pakistan.

In a separate incident, Indian troops shot dead two Mujahideen in Baramulla early Thursday, according to police.

Meanwhile, police said they had detained Kashmiri leader Javed Mir after he and a group marched to the UN office in Srinagar to protest the anniversary of Indian army’s deployment.—AFP