In a series of gunbattles in Jammu and Kashmir, security forces killed three militants, including a senior member of Lashkar-e-Taiba. Two terrorists were killed near Halkan Gali in the Shangus-Larnoo area in Anantnag district.
Last week, militants had ambushed an army vehicle and killed five people, including three soldiers.

A week before that, militants had killed seven people near a construction site for a strategic road tunnel to Ladakh, a high-altitude Himalayan region bordering China.

According to the Army, more than 720 militants have been killed since Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government cancelled the J&K’s limited autonomy in 2019.

At least 500,000 Indian troops are deployed in Kashmir, battling an insurgency that has killed tens of thousands of civilians, soldiers and militants since 1989.