Srinagar: At least four suspected militants were gunned down by Indian troops as they tried to enter the Indian zone of divided Kashmir from Pakistan, a military spokesman said.
Lieutenant Colonel J.S Brar said that the four heavily-armed rebels were killed in a gun battle in Kashmir’s Keran region, some 150 kilometres (90 miles) from summer capital Srinagar.
Friday’s killing followed an attack late last month by gunmen on a Srinagar hotel, after they aborted an attempt to ambush an Indian army convoy.
Separatist violence that has wrecked the tourism industry in the Muslim-majority region has been at its lowest ebb since the insurgency began in 1989.
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