Srinagar, July 06: Seven people, including four militants and two children, were killed and four others including three women injured in militancy-related incidents in Jammu and Kashmir since last evening while BSF nabbed a Hizbul ultra who sent Kashmiri youth to Pakistan for arms training, an official spokesman said here today. Two militants of pro-Pakistan Hizbul Mujahideen were killed in an encounter with security forces at village Hafoo-Haina Tral in Pulwama district of south Kashmir last night, the spokesman said. Two women were injured in the exchange of fire and were given medical treatment, he said.

A self-styled battalion commander of al Badr outfit, Imran Bhai of Pakistan, and another militant, Asamat Ullah Farooqi of Jaish-e-Mohammad outfit, were killed in separate gunbattles with security forces in Kupwara and Rajouri districts. Two minor children - Sameer Ahmad Bhat(7) and Ishfaq Ahmad (6) - were killed and another boy was injured in an explosion at Raj Mohalla Wazrpora near Sopore in Baramulla district last evening, he said.

Militants intruded into the house of one Ghulam Rasool Bhat at Kreeri in Baramulla district last night and kidnapped him. Bhat, an employee in public health engineering department, was later killed by the abductors, the spokesman said.

He said militants also shot at and critically injured an employee of Social Welfare Departement, Haseena, in her house at Yunsoo-Handwara in frontier district of Kupwara. Bureau Report