Five Indian army soldiers were killed and one wounded during an operation against militants in India-occupied Kashmir on Friday, the army said.
The Indian army has been conducting search operations in the Rajouri district since last month to hunt “rebels” it blamed for an attack on an army truck that killed five troops.
A search team “established contact with a group of terrorists well entrenched in a cave” in an area “thickly vegetated with rocky and steep cliffs”, the army said in a statement.
The suspected rebels then triggered an explosive device that killed two and injured four other soldiers, it said.
The statement added that two soldiers died in the attack and another three succumbed to their injuries later in the day.
The internet services were suspended in Rajouri following the incident.
