Six killed in Kashmir

Published September 11, 2006

SRINAGAR, Sept 10: Five suspected militants and a civilian were killed in the latest violence in occupied Kashmir, police said on Sunday. Four of the militants were killed in three separate gunbattles in the southern districts of Poonch, Doda and Pulwama on Saturday night, a police spokesman said.

“One of the slain militants was a Pakistani,” he said.

Suspected militants shot dead a former colleague who had surrendered to the army recently, police said, adding that a civilian hurt in an alleged militant attack on Saturday died on Sunday.—AFP

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