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Nine militants, including four infiltrators, and a security soldier were among 13 people killed and two injured in Jammu and Kashmir since Tuesday night, a police spokesman said in New Delhi Wednesday.
Security forces averted a major tragedy with detection of powerImprovised Explosive Device (IED) in busy Bandipora area of Baramaulla district, the spokesman said.
The IED planted by militants in a gas cylinder near a petrol pump at Vihar in the area which was detected by Army on Wednesday,he said.
According to the Press Trust of India, the device was immediately removed from the area and was subsequently defused by experts.
Army also foiled an infiltration bid when troops gunned down four Pakistani intruders at Fateh Gali in Keran sector of Kupwara district Tuesday night, the spokesman said.
He said the militants were killed soon after they intruded intoour side from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
Since 1989, some 30,000 people have been killed in Jammu and Kashmir, most of them civilians.
(Xinhua News Agency October 17, 2002)
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