SRINAGAR, July 26: Five people were killed and 12 wounded, including nine in a tourist area, in four different gunbattles in the Indian-held Kashmir on Wednesday, a police spokesman said.

Indian troops shot dead two suspected militants in separate gunbattles in the Kupwara and Kulgam districts. A soldier and a policeman were killed and three soldiers wounded in a gunbattle with freedom fighters near Shopian. A civilian was killed when he strayed into the crossfire of freedom fighters and security forces in Kupwara.

Nine were wounded when a grenade exploded in the hands of a suspected militant trying to hurl it at a security patrol near a busy bus stand in Magam.—AFP