SRINAGAR, Nov 2: Suspected militants shot and killed three people in separate incidents in held Kashmir on Thursday, police said. A soldier was shot and killed and another was wounded in a busy market in Srinagar. The two soldiers were shot at close range by the gunmen, who then fled, said Srinagar’s deputy inspector of police, Farooq Ahmed.

In the village of Bumphan, some 90km south of Srinagar suspected militants shot a man police said was a former militant. The man was critically wounded and died on the way to hospital.

Also, in Baramulla, one man was shot and killed by gunmen, said local police.

The Heb-ul-Mujahadeen group claimed responsibility for the shooting in a call to a local news agency.—AP