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SRINAGAR, Wednesday (AFP) Ten Islamic militants, an Indian army colonel, a solider and a policeman are among the latest casualties of violence in Indian-administered Kashmir, authorities said Tuesday.

Ten militants were killed in four separate clashes that began late Monday night along the Line of Control (LoC) -- the de facto border dividing Kashmir between arch rivals India and Pakistan, Indian army spokesman colonel Mukhtar Singh said.

He identified the areas as Pindi Gali, a mountain pass along the LoC, Ratigali and Kandoor -- all in northern Kupwara district of the state.

"They (the militants) had just sneaked into the Indian side from the Pakistani side when the encounters took place," Singh said.

"A large amount of arms and ammunition including wireless sets have been recovered from them. This gives a lie to the claim from the other side that there is no infiltration."

On Tuesday an Indian army colonel and soldier died after a bombing blamed on militants in the Marmat area of Doda district, 180 kilometres (112 miles) north of Jammu, police said. Another soldier was wounded.

The bomb struck an army patrol on a hill track.

In another raid Tuesday, militants killed a policeman when they attacked a police post in the Gandoh area of Doda district, a police spokesman said.

In the same area, militants kidnapped three Hindus from a forest in Thatri, prompting a major search for the abducted men.

An Indian army spokesman said a young girl and a civilian were injured Tuesday when Paskistani troops fired on a number of Indian frontier villages in Kashmir. 

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