The Indian Army announced on Saturday to have killed five militants while stopping them from crossing into India from Pakistan-controlled Kashmir.

The armed troops shot the militants on the spot in the Tangdhar sector of the Line of Control, a heavily militarized border in the Kashmir region between India and Pakistan, a Indian defense spokesperson said through the PTI news agency. More details are expected to be released.

The militants are at their third failed attempt to infiltrate in the Kashmir valley in the past four days. According to the spokesman, 17 militants and three soldiers perished in the border shootouts.

The previous attempt to cross the Line of Control in Tangdhar was stopped as well and three militants and a soldier were reported dead after the shooting took place.

Probably the bloodiest was the 36-hour gun battle in the Tangmarg region which ended on Wednesday with nine militants and two Army officers dead.

The latest Indian Army investigations led its superiors to believe that the militants from the Pakistan-controlled Kashmir have been making desperate attempts to cross the border and infiltrate into the other side of the valley before the winter closes al the routes, PTI reported.

Since the division of the Indian subcontinent in 1947, the two regional powers have already fought two wars over the beautiful province of Kashmir and now the region is parted into two sub-regions by a Line of Control. One region is controlled by Pakistan and the other by India.

In the late 1980s a separatist movement emerged in the valley and, since then, caused approximately 50,000 deaths. Islamabad denied India’s claim that it arms and funds the separatist militants, saying they are freedom fighters and Pakistan has nothing to do with them.

The Indian Kashmir witnesses an increased violence especially during the month when the Muslims celebrate Ramadan. The cause is the local Muslim belief that those killed in battle during the holly month will be rewarded extra in the afterlife.

Generally the Indian controlled side of the Kashmir records an average of two insurgency-related deaths a day.