DHAKA: Six people, including three civilians and three army soldiers, were killed in a fierce gunbattle between the security forces and militants near the international border in Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday.

Police said, reports The Times of India.

Militants dressed in army uniforms attacked the Indian Army base near the town of Arnia on Thursday, as the leaders of India and Pakistan attended a Saarc summit aimed at boosting trade.

A gunfight between the militants and the army was continuing, a senior Indian Army officer said. Three militants had been shot dead and one arrested, the officer said.

Four to five militants attacked the army base near the town of Arnia, about four km from the border with Pakistan, the officer, who did not wish to be named as he is not authorised to speak to the media, said.

The militants had divided into two teams, with one group heading for an army bunker and the other holed up inside a village house, the officer said.

The gunmen didn’t infiltrate from the Pakistani side of the border, a senior Border Security Force official said.

‘They came in a car to Arnia and took shelter in a bunker and targeted the army,’ he said.

BDST: 1856 HRS, NOV 27, 2014