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Four members of the paramilitary Border Security Force and a six-year-old child were wounded in intense firing by Pakistani troops along the international border in Jammu region on Wednesday.
Exchanges intensified along the border after the BSF decided to continue fencing along the border in Jammu.
The BSF has fenced a major portion in the region.
Sources said that Pakistani troops have been firing from automatic weapons along the border, from Paharpur to Chicken neck. The areas that witnessed heavy firing included Hiranagar, Samba, Ramgrah, R S Pora, Kanachak and Akhnoor.
The sources said that at Akhnoor, four members of the BSF received serious injuries in firing by the Pakistani troops. The injured were shifted to hospital.
A report from R S Pora said six-year-old Suman Balla, who received injuries in the firing, was rushed to hospital.
"Heavy firing is continuing along the international border. The firing started early on Wednesday and was continuing when we received reports in the evening," said a police officer in Jammu.
In Srinagar, two policemen of the Jammu and Kashmir police were shot dead by militants in Karan Nagar chowk on Wednesday afternoon.
The sources said the two policemen were on duty in the chowk, near the state police headquarters, when the militants struck.
A volley of shots was fired by the militants on the cops.
Senior police officers rushed to the spot and searches were ordered in the area.
A late evening report from Sopore in north Kashmir said that the BSF raided a house at Nowpora, in the apple rich town.
The raiding party of the BSF came under heavy fire, resulting in injuries to two members. The troops engaged the militants of the frontline Lashkar-e-Tayiba in a fierce gunbattle. Till evening, police said two militants were killed.
A militant who was holed up in a house near a mosque fired from an automatic gun on the paramilitary, which had laid a siege in the locality.
Special police officer, Gulab Chand, died in an explosion, while a soldier was wounded at Udianpur village in Doda district. In the same district, at Palmar, near Kishtawar, SPO Babu Ram was killed in an exchange of fire.
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