SRINAGAR: Indian soldiers shot and killed three suspected Islamist militants in two separate clashes in Indian-held Kashmir (IHK) on Monday, while militants seriously wounded two soldiers and a political activist in another incident and the army seized a large cache of militant weapons, officials said. The army fatally shot two suspected militants who were planning to cross over to the Pakistani portion of Kashmir, said Col Hemant Juneja, an army spokesman. There was no independent confirmation of the army claim.The soldiers cordoned off Malangam, a mountainous village 125 kilometres north of Srinagar, after suspected insurgents hid there, Juneja told The Associated Press. The two were killed in an exchange of gunfire and the army recovered their bodies in Malangam, he said. At dawn, paramilitary border guards ambushed and killed another suspected militant in Bandipore, area police chief Viplav Kumar said.Around the same time, militants shot and critically wounded an activist of the state's ruling pro-India party, the People's Democratic Party, in Hasanpora.