Militants killed two schoolteachers, and two civilians and a soldier were wounded in a day of violence in Indian held Kashmir, officials said on Friday.In the village of Pelhipora, some 65 kilometres south of Srinagar, militants abducted two men overnight and beat them badly. One of the men, a schoolteacher, died, said police officer Imtiyaz Hussain. Hussain said the two had refused to cooperate with the militants who had been there several days before.
In the neighbouring village of Padarpora, a schoolteacher suspected of being a police informer was shot dead, Hussain said. Also on Friday, an army patrol near the village of Dogripora, 35 kilometres (south of Srinagar, spotted some alleged militants and opened fire. The gunmen returned fire, wounding a soldier and a civilian caught in the crossfire, said army spokesman Colonel Hemant Juneja. However, villagers said the army shot the civilian after he refused to cooperate in their searches. Juneja denied this.