Jammu, May 10 : Security forces recovered 10 kilograms of RDX along with ammunition and other items from the Sujani forest area of Samba district on Saturday.

New Delhi  - India on Friday lodged a "strong protest" with Pakistan after its border guards came under heavy fire from suspected Muslim militants attempting to cross into India-administered Kashmir, news reports said.

The firing took place in the Samba sector, 400 kilometres south of state capital Srinagar, on Thursday night after soldiers from the Border Security Force (BSF) spotted militants cutting the barbed wire fence at the international border.

Srinagar, Kashmir - The death toll in an accident in which a bus fell into a river in India-administered Kashmir climbed to 36 with the recovery of four more bodies in search operations overnight, police said Friday.

The bus skidded off a mountain road and fell 122 metres into a tributary of the Chenab river in the southern Kishtwar district on Thursday.

"The bus was carrying 47 passengers when it met with the accident. Police and army have recovered 34 bodies from the fast-flowing Chenab river till now," District Superintendent of Police, Mumtaz Ahmed said.

Of the five passengers injured in the crash, two succumbed to their injuries at a hospital in Kishtwar, 190 kilometres north of the state's summer capital of Jammu.

Jammu, May 9: The death toll in bus accident in Kishtwar District of Jammu and Kashmir has risen to 35 with five others sustaining injuries.

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.

Poonch (J-K), May 7 : The Poonch-Rawalakot bus service has brought joy to the people on either side of Kashmir.

A total of 74 passengers from both sides of Kashmir crossed the Line of Control (LOC) at Chakan-Da-Bagh in Poonch District on Wednesday. Of these, 36 were Indian citizens who returned after visting their relatives in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK), while 38 PoK residents bid adieu after meeting their kith and kin living in Poonch.

The passengers said the opening of this second bus route between Poonch in Kashmir and Rawalakot in PoK would benefit various divided families.