31.   Security forces also shot dead three militants in two separate encounters in the southern district of Poonch.

32.   Security forces shot dead eight militants from the outlawed Jamaa Islamiya group on Sunday and Monday in the southern Egyptian provinces of Asyut and Minya, police said.

33.   Security forces shot dead four Islamic militants during clashes in the fundamentalist hotbed of Minya in southern Egypt on Thursday, police said.

34.   Security forces shot dead three militants at Mughlian in southern Rajouri district Tuesday during an encounter, police said.

35.   The Indian army and counter-insurgency police shot dead two militants in separate encounters in the southern Rajouri and Poonch districts, both bordering Pakistan-administered Kashmir.

36.   The official added Indian troops shot dead three militants and arrested four others overnight.