A senior Indian army officer has been killed in an ongoing¹ gun battle with militants² in Indian-administered Kashmir.

印度一位高级军官在一场与克什米尔地区武装分子发生的枪战中丧生。

Hundreds of thousands of troops are based in Kashmir

Major AK Thinge died after he and his men came "under heavy fire" in Poonch, an army spokesman said.

Seven other soldiers, including a colonel（陆军上校） , were injured.

Despite a decline in violence in Kashmir in recent years, there are fears that militants（激进分子） are trying to regroup in the region.

Hundreds of thousands of Indian troops are based in Kashmir to fight a two decade-old insurgency³（叛乱，暴动） against Indian rule.

An army spokesman said it was not clear whether the militants had crossed the Line of Control which divides Indian and Pakistani-administered Kashmir, and is close to the Beri Rakh region where the gunbattle is going on.

"The operation will continue. We have tightened⁴ the security cordon⁵（警戒线） in the area."

He said the troops had come under heavy fire from the militants as they were preparing to launch an operation to flush them out.