Indian military kills infiltrator on Kashmir LoC

Indian military said on Friday that it has killed an infiltrator on Line of Control (LoC) dividing Kashmir.

The infiltrator, according to military officials, was gunned down at Sune Gali - Mendhar of frontier Poonch district, about 185 km southwest of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian-controlled Kashmir.

"One infiltrator was today successfully eliminated at LoC," Indian military spokesman, Lt. Col. Manish Mehta told Xinhua. "The infiltrator fired upon our troops inside our territory but got killed in immediate retaliation."

Mehta said during searches after the gunfight, they have recovered an assault rifle and some ammunition near the infiltrator's body.

"The infiltrator was wearing combat dress and good quality trekking shoes," he said.

However, no independent confirmation could be made about the gunfight in the remote sector.

LoC is de facto border that divides Kashmir into Indian and Pakistani-controlled parts.Last week Indian border guards killed an intruder on International Border (IB) near Kashmir in a similar incident.

A guerrilla war is going on between militants and Indian troops stationed in Indian-controlled Kashmir since 1989. Gunfight between the two sides takes place intermittently across the region.

New Delhi accuses Islamabad of sending armed militants to Indian-controlled Kashmir. However, Islamabad says it only provides moral and political support to Kashmiris.

Kashmir, the Himalayan region divided between India and Pakistan, is claimed by both in full. Since their independence from Britain, the two countries have fought three wars, two exclusively over Kashmir. Endi