3 soldiers killed in IIOJK

Gunmen in Indian-Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir ambushed an army vehicle and killed five people, including three soldiers, officials said on Friday, days after seven construction workers were killed in the disputed territory.

India's army confirmed a brief exchange of fire with "terrorists" late Thursday in the vicinity of Gulmarg, near the heavily militarised unofficial Line of Control.

India's Chinar Corps army unit paid tribute to two slain riflemen, expressing "deepest condolences" and "solidarity with the bereaved families" in a post Friday on social media platform X.

Another soldier wounded in the attack died Friday at a military hospital.

A local government official told AFP two civilian porters engaged by the army were also killed.