Six more people have been killed in clashes between government forces and militants in Indian-administered Kashmir.
The latest wave of violence has killed 28 people, including nine civilians, in the past two weeks, according to the French news agency AFP.
IG Police Vijay Kumar said that two militants of The Resistance Front were killed outside Srinagar on Saturday, including a commander Omar Mushtaq Khande.
A few hours later, the attackers killed a wheelbarrow driver, according to police.
A military statement said two soldiers were killed in a clash near the LoC while searching for militants.
The Resistance Front had earlier claimed to have killed seven people, including three Hindus and a Sikh woman.
One thousand people have been arrested on suspicion of links to banned religious and militant groups, a police officer said.
After 1947, Kashmir was divided between Pakistan and India and thousands have died since 1989.
Tensions have risen again since India changed its status to Kashmir in August 2019. The Indian government says it has taken this step for peace and prosperity in the region.
However, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq said in a statement on Saturday that many Kashmiri youths had gone underground due to the oppression of Indian forces.
Suspected militants killed an Indian Army officer and an officer in Kashmir yesterday.
The Indian troops were pursuing the militants in a forest in the southern part of the Kashmir Valley when an exchange of fire broke out, AFP quoted Col. Devinder Anand, an Indian Army spokesman in Srinagar, as saying.
