"Alert troops detected a group of six heavily-armed terrorists trying to sneak into our side of the Line of Control (LoC) in Tangdhar sector" in the morning, Col. Brijesh Pandey of the army's Srinagar-based 15 Corps told IANS.

Indian soldiers display weapons and ammunition, seized following the gunbattle at a military base in Kangan on August 30, 2013. Indian police and troops killed five suspected rebels in an overnight gun battle in a forested area of northern Kashmir.Pic/AFP