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Militants kill three in Indian Kashmir: police
JAMMU, India (AFP) - - Militants killed two civilians and a soldier in Indian Kashmir, where they were engaged in a gunfight with security forces, police said on Sunday.
The militants gunned down two residents in the Himalayan region's Samba area, about 70 kilometers (42 miles) south of Kashmir's winter capital Jammu, before security forces launched an offensive.
"Firing between unidentified militants and security forces is still going on in the area, which has been cordoned off," deputy inspector general of police Farooq Khan said.
Police earlier said the militants had killed two people and injured two others.
One soldier was also killed and three people injured in the gunbattle in Samba, where Indian troops had come under heavy fire from across the border on Friday.
India's foreign minister is scheduled to visit Pakistan later this month to review a slow-moving peace process started by the nuclear-armed rivals in January 2004.
The two countries used to routinely exchange artillery and machine gun fire until a November 2003 truce that is still holding.
Violence has sharply dropped in Indian Kashmir since the launch of the peace process, but Indian officials say militants are still trying to cross into the scenic Himalayan region to sustain an insurgency that erupted in 1989.
The two countries are far from resolving the dispute over Kashmir, which has triggered two of their three wars.
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