| Twelve more people were killed in Held Kashmir, police said. Two militants and an Indian army soldier were killed in a fierce encounter in the southern village of Kharpora overnight, police said. The fighting erupted during a search by the army. Indian troops shot dead three more militants in the Beholi village of Doda late Tuesday during a three-hour gun battle, the spokesman said. Two more militants were shot dead in the village of Khaipora overnight in northern Kupwara district, police said. A Muslim woman caught in the cross-fire also died. Suspected militants shot dead a former colleague in the southern Pulwama district, while a member of Ikhwan — a group formed by former militants to help Indian troops battle anti-Indian militants — was killed in the central Kashmir district of Budgam, the spokesman said. |