Indian occupation army said its occupation soldiers shot dead 12 freedom fighters including five guerrilla leaders on Friday in the bloodiest gunbattles since New Delhi began peace talks with Kashmiri separatists.
A civilian was also killed in a separate incident.
"We have killed ten foreign terrorists there are five important leaders, four are district commanders (of Lashakr-e-Tiaba)," Brigadier A.K. Gupta, a senior Indian occupation army officer told reporters.
The two gunbattles took place in occupied Kupwara and occupied Baramulla districts which lie near Pakistan border in north occupied Kashmir.
Gupta said the fifth was the leader of a suicide group.
Elsewhere two freedom fighters and a civilian were killed in separate shootouts in the region, an occupation army spokesman said.
Last week, the leaders of the moderate faction of Hurriyat - an umbrella organisation grouping several separatist groups - met Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani for unprecedented talks aimed at ending the revolt in occupied Kashmir.
India and Pakistan have agreed to resume bilateral talks in February over a range of disputes, including occupied Kashmir at the heart of more than five decades of enmity.
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