SRINAGAR, Aug 5: Indian forces claimed killing two Mujahideen in a search operation in a village in occupied Kashmir onMonday, officials said.

Troops ringed the village near Pulwama, 40kms south of Srinagar, after receiving a tipoff about the Mujahideen presence, a spokesman for India’s Border Security Force (BSF) said.

“So far two militants have been killed and two AK rifles recovered from the scene of the encounter,” he said.

The spokesman said firing had stopped but that BSF troops, backed by a special police fprce and the Indian army, had tightened the cordon around the village.

He said villagers were brought out of their houses to prevent any civilian casualties.

GRENADE ATTACK: Ten people were injured, one of them seriously, when unidentified men hurled a grenade at a crowded market in Rajouri, 150kms west of held Jammu.

The seriously injured man was airlifted to Jammu for medical treatment.—AFP