SRINAGAR, Nov 1: Five Muslim militants and a policeman have died in fresh clashes in insurgency-hit occupied Kashmir, officials said on Thursday.

Three of the militants were killed on Thursday morning after crossing into the Indian-occupied part of the disputed Himalayan region, army spokesman Colonel Manjinder Singh claimed.

“They were killed as they entered our territory,” he said, adding that reinforcements were sent to northern Kupwara district and its section of the Line of Control.

In a separate clash on Wednesday night, two militants and a policeman were killed in the region’s southern Doda district, police claimed in a statement.

Police identified one of the slain militants as a district commander for the militant group Hizbul Mujahideen, which wants all of Kashmir to be under Pakistani rule.—AFP