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Militants on Friday yet again ambushed an army convoy near Chamalvas, 128 kms from Srinagar on the Srinagar-Jammu National Highway, killing two soldiers on the spot while five others were critically wounded.
Police sources told rediff.com that militants hurled grenades and fired from automatic weapons on the heavily armed convoy.
The five seriously wounded soldiers were air-lifted to the hospital in Srinagar.
Sources said soldiers escorting the convoy had engaged the militants in a fierce encounter, which was on when reports last came in.
The highway is being used by thousands of pilgrims bound for the Amarnath yatra base camp at Pahalgam.
Traffic on the highway was disrupted and senior officers had rushed to the spot.
On Wednesday, Lashkar-e-Tayiba militants had ambushed an army convoy near Qazigund.
Meanwhile, police sources said that 4,236 Amarnath bound pilgrims had left Jammu early on Friday morning in 195 vehicles escorted by security forces.
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