Indian troops killed five militants in a fierce gunbattle in held Kashmir after they barricaded themselves inside a mosque, an army official said on Wednesday. The militants fled to the mosque after fighting began when soldiers surrounded Khilangund village in southern Pulwama district in the morning, following a tipoff that militants were sheltering there. "We have killed all the five militants who barricaded themselves inside the mosque," army spokesman Lieutenant Colonel VK Batra said. "The mosque is intact and now free of militants."