Government forces in Indian held Kashmir on Saturday killed two suspected militants , a day after two other militants were shot dead in a gun battle with police. Forces "moved in cautiously" on Saturday and killed the two militants after tip offs that they were hiding out in the Samba sector, some 350 kilometres (217 miles) from the region's main city of Srinagar, army sources told AFP.
"Two militants were killed near the armoured regiment unit," Danish Rana, inspector general of police for the region, told AFP.
On Friday, two armed militants hijacked a private jeep and killed the driver before lobbing grenades into a police station about 20 kilometres (12 miles) from Samba sector before being shot dead by forces.
The attack was the first to hit India's only Muslim-majority state since the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) took power this month in a coalition government.
Army sources, however, could not confirm whether the militants involved in Friday's incident were in the same group as those killed on Saturday.
No militant group immediately claimed responsibility for Friday's attack.