| Fresh violence flared in Indian Kashmir as rebels killed two alleged spies and troops shot dead four suspected militants from the disputed region's Pakistani side, police said Thursday. The two suspected informers were abducted by rebels from their homes in the central Kashmir district of Budgam and shot dead Thursday morning, police said. Indian troops killed four suspected rebels in two clashes along the Line of Control -- the de facto border that divides Kashmir between India and Pakistan -- in the southern Poonch and Rajouri districts overnight and Thursday, a police spokesman said in the summer capital Srinagar. "All four infiltrated into our territory from Pakistan-administered Kashmir," a police spokesman said. He said a total of seven rebel infiltrators had been killed over the past two days. Violence usually escalates in Kashmir on the eve of India's independence day August 15. Militants and separatist politicians call the event a "Black Day." |