Indian soldiers have shot dead four suspected Muslim militants who tried to slip into disputed Kashmir from Pakistan.
The gunbattle took place late last night near a ceasefire line dividing the Himalayan region between the rivals, which have fought two of their three wars over Kashmir since 1947.
"Security forces eliminated four terrorists near the Line of Control in Machil sector, while they were trying to infiltrate into our side," a police spokesman said.
Machil lies in the district of Kupwara northwest of Srinagar, the summer capital of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.
Violence has soared in Kashmir in recent weeks, casting a cloud on tentative peace steps between India and Pakistan, which nearly went to war for a fourth time last year, over Kashmir.
Police say more than 171 people, mostly rebels, have been killed in separatist violence in the first two weeks of September.
India has long demanded that Pakistan put a stop to Muslim militants crossing into Indian-administered Kashmir to join a separatist insurgency there. Muslim Pakistan denies it arms and pushes the rebels into Indian Kashmir to join the 13-year revolt.
Ties between the nuclear-armed rivals have improved slightly in recent months but India has linked fresh talks to an end to attacks by the rebels in Kashmir.