Srinagar  - At least 40 people were feared dead as the bus they were travelling in fell into a river in India's northern state of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday, police and news reports said.

The bus skidded off a mountain road and fell 400 feet (122 metres) into a tributary of the Chenab river in the Kishtwar district, 190 kilometres north of the state's summer capital of Jammu.

"Bodies of 15 people have been recovered by police and army teams which launched rescue operations immediately. The search and rescue operations are continuing," a local policeman said on condition of anonymity.

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Srinagar, India  -  A senior militant leader was shot dead by security forces in India-administered Kashmir, police said Wednesday.

Sajad Afghani was the "chief operations commander" of the Pakistan-based Islamic militant outfit Harkat-ul Mujahideen, a police official said.

Afghani was killed during a raid by security forces on an abandoned hospital building in Sopore town, about 45 kilometres north of Jammu and Kashmir state capital Srinagar late on Tuesday, a local police official said.

He said a policeman had been injured during the raid.