Indian occupation troops killed eight suspected freedom fighters in Indian occupied Kashmir on Tuesday, police said, despite a unilateral cease-fire called by the freedom fighters while earthquake relief operations are under way.
"Security forces today foiled an infiltration bid of terrorists on the (Line of Control), while they were crossing over", a police spokesman said.
"During the ensuing exchange of firing, eight terrorists were killed," he said, adding that arms and ammunition were recovered from the dead.
The clash took place 140 kilometres north of the occupied Srinagar, police said.
Occupied Kashmir's main freedom fighter alliance, the United Jihad Council, said in a statement on Monday that freedom fighter operations were on hold in regions affected by Saturday's devastating 7.6-magnitude earthquake.
It said that Syed Salahudin, chief of the region's most powerful freedom fighter group, the Hizbul Mujahedin, "has directed its cadres to halt their operations in the affected areas".
The freedom fighters have in the past suspended operations when such calamities struck the region, including earlier this year when more than 300 people were killed in snow avalanches.
The epicenter of Saturday's quake hit close to the Line of Control that divides the Indian and Pakistani sector, killing more than 1,300 on the Indian side but leaving as many as 40,000 feared dead on Pakistan's side.