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Lashkar-e-Tayiba militants on Friday ambushed an army convoy on the Srinagar-Jammu national highway in Doda district triggering a fierce gun battle in which three soldiers and two militants were killed.
Seven security personnel were wounded in the attack, an official spokesman said.
Elsewhere in the state, 22 people, including 16 militants, were killed since Thursday evening as security forces foiled three infiltration bids by Pakistani militants.
The spokesman said heavily-armed LeT militants hurled grenades and fired indiscriminately at the army convoy at Chamalvas in Banihal, some 125 km from Srinagar, forcing the jawans to retaliate.
On Wednesday, LeT militants attacked an army convoy near Khanabal in south Kashmir killing three soldiers, including a senior army officer.
The spokesman said nine Pakistani infiltrators were killed in gun battles with security forces in Poonch, Rajouri and Kupwara. Huge quantity of arms and ammunition were recovered from the scenes of these skirmishes.
Two foreign militants each were killed in encounters with security forces in Barmulla and Kupwara districts. An army jawan also lost his life in the Kupwara gun battle.
One of the killed ultras was identified as Saifullah of Al-Bader, the spokesman said.
A junior commissioned officer was killed and two jawans were injured when militants ambushed a patrol of Rashtriya Rifles at Kanchloo-Kund village in Anantnag district.
An LeT militant, Fareed Ahmad Danda, was killed in an encounter with security forces in Gadhool area in Anantnag district.
Security forces recovered a decomposed body of a foreign militant in Poonch district last night.
PTI
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