Security forces have shot dead 10 militants in different encounters in Kashmir, the police said on Tuesday.
Two separatist militants were shot dead by army counter-insurgency troops in a three-hour long encounter at Kreeri, 35 km north of Srinagar late on Monday, a police spokesman said.

A fire, sparked off by the gunfight, razed a building to the ground, the spokesman said. "So far two bodies have been recovered from the debris," he said, adding that civilians in the building were evacuated before the gun battle.
Two other militants were shot dead by the army overnight along the Line of Control, the police spokesman said. "The militants were killed once they entered this (Indian) side of Kashmir," he said.
Two more militants were killed overnight in Dumpora Mirmaidan village near Dooru, 75 km south of Srinagar, the police said. During the exchange of fire, two houses and two cowsheds were also destroyed. Elsewhere in Kashmir, four militants were killed in overnight encounters, the police spokesman said, two of them in Poonch district. Four Indian army soldiers were injured when militants ambushed their patrol overnight at Sogan in the northern Kashmir district of Kupwara.
Two of the injured are in a serious condition, according to the spokesman. The Jamiat-ul-Mujahideen militant group has claimed responsibility for the attack on the army.
Bureau Report