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Four members of the Special Operations Group (SOG) were killed early on Friday when militants ambushed a joint party of the SOG and the paramilitary Border Security Force (BSF) in Udhampur district of Jammu region.
A senior police officer told rediff.com on phone from Jammu that militants ambushed the security personnel at village Swagdhar and escaped with their weapons.
"The militants hurled grenades and fired bullets from automatic weapons at the joint raiding party," the officer said.
He said the SOG and the BSF personnel retaliated and the encounter continued for several hours. "We have reports that several militants were also wounded. However, they managed escape," he revealed.
Meanwhile, militants late on Friday evening opened fire on a group of pro-government militants outside the famous Shalimar garden in Srinagar killing two top counter-insurgents.
The deceased were the identified as Mushtaq Paul and Mohammad Maqbool.
The firing led to panic among the people who were inside the garden. Police and security forces immediately rushed to the spot.
In another incident, one member of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) was wounded in a grenade attack at Hyderpora in uptown Srinagar.
Meanwhile, life in the entire Valley was on Friday crippled in view of the general strike called by the separatist All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) against the alleged custodial killing of a prominent militant leader and chief spokesman of the frontline Hizbul Mujahideen.
Shops, business establishments in the entire Valley were closed and traffic was off the roads.
Authorities had made elaborate security arrangements in the summer capital Srinagar and its suburbs.
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