| AFP: Indian troops shot dead four Kashmiris along the Line of Control in the Kalaroos area of Kupwara. Another four freedom fighters were killed along the international border with Pakistan in R.S. Pora sector overnight, a police spokesman said. In another incident, the army shot dead five Kashmiri activists during two cordon-and-search operations in Kupwara overnight. He identified one of them as Abdul Wahid, a "battalion commander" of Lashkar-i-Taiba. Two more Mujahideen were killed by the troops in Poonch district in the early hours of Thursday, police said, adding a shepherd, Haji Mitha, and his son Mohammed Ayub had their throats slit by suspected Mujahideen. They died near Bandipora township of Baramulla. Another two Muslim civilians were killed in Budgam district, one of them in a mine explosion, police said. |