Fourteen Muslim guerillas and six other people were killed in clashes in the disputed Indian state of Kashmir, officials said today.
Heavily-armed Muslim militants ambushed an Indian security convoy in Kashmir, killing one paramilitary soldier and injured nine others, police said.
Gunmen ambushed two security vehicles at Tarzoo, 54 kilometres (33 miles) north of Kashmir's summer capital Srinagar.
Five militants were killed in three separate encounters in Srinagar and Kupwara districts on Tuesday, police said.
A police spokesman in Srinagar, meanwhile, said nine militants and a soldier were killed Monday night in separate gunbattles in the southern district of Poonch.
The fiercest encounter took place at Khanetar-Top, near Mendhar township, 170 kilometres (104 miles) from Jammu, in which four militants and a soldier were killed, he said.
AFP