IoK is preparing for the first local assembly elections in ten years, which will take place on September 18 and feature three phases of voting.
According to the Indian army, the alleged fighters had been “neutralized,” a phrase signifying their death.
The majority-Hindu district of Jammu in the territory’s south, Kathua, was the scene of the fighting.
Fighting a 35-year insurgency that has claimed the lives of tens of thousands of civilians, soldiers, and freedom fighters since 1989, over 500,000 Indian troops are stationed in the area.
On the Indian side of the heavily guarded de facto border with Pakistan, the army announced on Monday that it had shot and killed two attackers.
Since the territory’s limited autonomy was revoked in 2019, it has been without an elected local administration.
