Kashmir incursions on despite quake: India

"Despite the major earthquake on October 8 and the resultant death and destruction there is no let up in infiltration bids (by militants)," said an army statement issued in the Indian Kashmir summer capital Srinagar.

The army had foiled some 39 attempts this year by militants to cross the Line of Control (LoC) -- the de facto border that divides Kashmir between nuclear rivals India and Pakistan, the statement said.

"All these (infiltration) attempts were foiled, resulting in the elimination of 147 militants along the LoC," it said.

Last year Indian troops killed 75 militants during the same period in 40 infiltration attempts.

However, no infiltrations had occurred near the crossing point along the LoC that India and Pakistan opened Monday, nor other points to be opened later this week, to allow relief to be moved across for survivors of the earthquake.

The devastating quake left more than 74,000 people dead in Pakistan, most of them in Pakistani Kashmir. Another 1,300 people in Indian Kashmir were killed and 150,000 made homeless.

India accuses Pakistan of arming and funding militants and helping them enter Indian Kashmir, allegations that Islamabad denies. Pakistan says it is doing its best to prevent cross-border infiltration.

Meanwhile, in the latest bout of separatist violence, suspected rebels late Sunday killed three civilians in Srinagar and the southern districts of Anantnag and Udhampur, police said.

Indian troops killed two militants in Anantnag and northern Kupwara district overnight, police added.

Tens of thousands of people have died in Kashmir since the eruption of insurgency against Indian rule in the scenic region in 1989.