SRINAGAR, April 3: Seven militants and a political party member were killed in occupied Kashmir at the weekend in the latest violence, a police spokesman said on Sunday.

Security forces killed two militants in Baramulla district near the Line-of-Control, the spokesman said, adding five other militants were killed in Pulwama district on Sunday.

“Two of the slain militants were from the Jaish-i-Mohammed”, the spokesman said.

In another incident, suspected militants on Saturday shot dead Zahoor Ahmed, an official from the state’s ruling Peoples Democratic Party, in Tailbal, on the outskirts of Srinagar, he said.

The spurt in violence comes ahead of Thursday’s resumption of a bus service linking the two zones of Kashmir.—AFP