Police in Indian-administered Kashmir say that a relative of a former junior minister in the federal government, Maqbool Dar, has been shot dead in the Anantnag district, and his brother abducted.

The authorities said six people were killed in two other shooting incidents in Barimullah and Srinagar districts.

And they also reported that six militants had died in a two-hour exchange of fire with Indian security forces in the Poonch border district.