**Four militants have been killed in a two-day gun battle with security forces in Indian-administered Kashmir, the Indian army says.**At least one army officer was also killed and five soldiers were injured in the fighting, in Dadasar village.
The army said the dead militants belonged to the Pakistan-based Hizbul Mujahideen (HuM) group.
The Kashmir dispute has been at the centre of decades of hostility between India and Pakistan.
The region has been the cause of two of their three wars since independence from British rule in 1947.
The two sides met for their first formal talks since the 2008 Mumbai (Bombay) attacks last month and agreed to keeping talking.
The latest fighting broke out on Wednesday morning after Indian troops surrounded a village where the militants had been hiding, an army spokesman said.
Unconfirmed reports said that three Indian soldiers had died in the battle.
The dead militants had been active in the area for 15 years and carried out several landmine attacks on Indian security forces, the spokesman said.
The BBC’s Altaf Hussain in Srinagar says there has been an increase in clashes between the militants and security forces in the Kashmir valley in which the latter have suffered heavy casualties.
Thousands of Indian troops are fighting a two-decade separatist insurgency in Kashmir.