A gunfight in Kashmir killed the eleventh Indian soldier to die in the restive Himalayan territory this month, India鈥檚 military said Saturday.
The military said an armed intruder from bordering Pakistan was also killed in the exchange of fire.
Kashmir has been divided between India and Pakistan since their independence from British rule in 1947, and each side claims it in full.
India鈥檚 military said a group of two or three people crossed the de facto frontier dividing the territory from Pakistan and fired at an army post in Kupwara district 鈥榝rom close proximity鈥�.
An Indian army soldier succumbed to his injuries during treatment, while another was injured but in stable condition, its statement added.
鈥業n the ensuing exchange of fire one Pakistani intruder has been killed along with recovery of weapons, ammunition and war like stores,鈥� the statement said.
The military accused Pakistan鈥檚 army of having aided the 鈥榠nfiltrators鈥� but said the attack had been 鈥榮uccessfully thwarted and disrupted鈥�.
The soldier was the 11th killed in the region this month following a spate of militant attacks, most in the southern Hindu-dominated part of the otherwise Muslim-majority region.
India and Pakistan have fought three major wars and countless border conflicts since they were partitioned out of the Indian subcontinent in 1947.
They remain deeply at odds over control of Kashmir, divided between the two countries and claimed in full by both.
Rebel groups demanding independence for Kashmir or its merger with Pakistan have been fighting Indian soldiers since 1989.
The conflict has killed tens of thousands of civilians, soldiers and rebels.
