Three suspected fighters were killed in separate gunbattles in Indian-controlled Kashmir, officials said.
India’s military in a statement said soldiers intercepted a group of fighters in a forested area in southern Anantnag district on Saturday, leading to a gunbattle that killed two rebels.
In a separate incident in the disputed region’s main city of Srinagar, police and paramilitary soldiers killed a fighter in an exchange of gunfire after troops cordoned off a neighbourhood on a tip that he was hiding in a house.
Residents said the troops torched the home where the rebel was trapped, a common tactic employed by Indian troops in the Himalayan region. There was no independent confirmation of the incident.
India and Pakistan each administer a part of Kashmir, but both claim the territory in its entirety.
The nuclear-armed rivals have fought two of their three wars over the territory since they gained independence from British colonial rule in 1947. — AP
