Militants storm army camp in Kashmir: 5 killed

They said one militant was killed and the firing had stopped but search operations were on.

The attack took place at the Bungush area near the border with Pakistan in Kupwara district northwest of Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir state.

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Muslim-majority Kashmir has been at the heart of decades of rivalry between the nuclear-armed neighbors, which went to the brink of a fourth war in 2002. Mainly Hindu India has long accused Muslim Pakistan of supporting the rebels. Pakistan denies the charge.

Elsewhere, Indian soldiers shot dead 10 militants in separate gunbattles across the valley, including four rebels who were trying to slip into Indian territory from Pakistan controlled Kashmir, police said.