Indian troops gunned down five militants in separate incidents in Kashmir. Indian troops shot dead three members of Lashkar-e-Taiba in the Gandoh range of southern Doda district late on Tuesday, a police spokesman said on Wednesday. A fourth militant managed to escape under the cover of darkness, he added. "Two of the slain militants were local Kashmiris, while the third was a Pakistani resident," he said. In another incident, Indian soldiers gunned down two men in the forests of Indian Kashmir, claiming they were militants, but villagers said one of the men was a carpenter who mistakenly wandered into an army ambush.
In a separate development, a senior army field commander was removed after his unit was found to have killed three civilians in August, the Times of India newspaper reported Wednesday. The army could not be reached for comment.