Ten killed in India held-Kashmir violence
Pakistan Times Kashmir Desk

SRINAGAR: Indian troops shot dead 10 activists overnight in separate gunbattles here, an army spokesman said.

Four were shot dead in Botnar village near the southern town of Tral, some 40 kilometres south of Srinagar, the spokesman said.

"The four were sighted inside a mountain cave in the snow-bound Botnar village," he said, adding that a gunbattle erupted as Indian troops closed in. "We killed all the four," he said.

Further south, in the neighbouring Anantnag district Indian troops, backed by police and paramilitary soldiers, shot dead three more 'rebels' in another encounter, the spokesman said.

In a third operation, three more were killed near the highway town of Banihal, 110 kilometres south of Srinagar, an army source said.●