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Elsewhere in Jammu and Kashmir, two militants and a jawan were killed and one person was abducted in separate incidents since Monday night.
The spokesman said troops challenged a group of heavily-armed militants trying to sneak into the Valley from across the border through Branpora-Bijham in Uri sector on Monday night.
In the ensuing gun-battle, which continued throughout the night, six infiltrators and army officer Lt. Mahesh Choudhary were killed, he said, adding four jawans, including an officer, were also injured.
The army had sealed the entire border belt to flush out other infiltrators who took shelter in a nearby forest taking advantage of the darkness, the spokesman said.
This was the first time that an encounter took place between infiltrators and security forces in the Uri sector during the past three years.
In a separate incident, three security personnel were wounded when militants detonated an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) near the Line of Control in the Uri sector.
In another IED blast at Darpora village in Doda district early on Tuesday, a jawan was killed and another wounded.
Two militants were killed in an encounter with security forces in Trehgam village in the frontier district of Kupwara, the spokesman said.
Scooter-borne militants shot at and injured a person in Baramulla district while one Fayaz Ahmad Wani was abducted by militants from Handwara area in Kupwara district.
A Harkat-ul-Mujahideen militant was arrested after a brief encounter at Nagam in Handwara.
Two more ultras, one of them identified as Mushtaq Ahmad Mir of the Al-Fateh outfit, were apprehended during search operations by security forces in the Valley.
A rocket projectile gun, two kgs of explosives, a remote control device, two RPG rockets and four grenades were recovered from them.
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