Suspected Islamic militants dragged a woman from her home, shot and killed her Wednesday, while separately a rebel and two suspected Islamic militants were also killed in Indian Kashmir, police said. The woman, 40, was pulled out of her home by two suspected rebels and shot at close range in her garden in Warpora, a village 60 kilometres (37 miles) north of Srinagar, the summer capital of IndiaÂ’s Jammu-Kashmir state, said local police officer Imtiaz Hussain. Police were investigating the motive for the killing, he said. No other details were immediately available. Elsewhere in Kashmir, a suspected militant was killed in a gunbattle with army soldiers Wednesday in Thatri village, 170 kilometres (106 miles) north of Jammu, the winter capital of Jammu-Kashmir. Police in Thatri identified the rebel as Gul Nawaz, a commander of the outlawed Hezbul Mujahedeen militant group, said police superintendent Manohar Singh. |