| Twelve people were killed in separatist violence in Indian Kashmir and 14 were injured in a grenade attack on Monday, police said. Suspected militants hurled a grenade at a police patrol at Kulgam on the main highway between Srinagar and Jammu, injuring 12 civilian bystanders and two policemen, police said. Overnight, two militants barged into the home of a member of a state-backed militia in Daraj village, in Rajouri district, and tried to kidnap him and his son, a police spokesman said. The militiaman, Mohammed Sharief, killed one of the militants but was seriously injured and later died in hospital. Meanwhile, two women, Sharifa Begum and Kulsuma Bano, and a man, Ghulam Rasool Lone, were shot dead by suspected militants in Baramulla district. In the neighbouring Budgam district, police said militants shot dead Ghulam Ahmed, an alleged police source who was associated with the National Conference party. Three militants were killed by troops in shootings, said police |