 Indian troops shot dead four militants overnight in Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Saturday. Troops killed the militants in raids on two hideouts in the state's southern snowbound district of Udhampur late on Friday, a spokesman said. The militant violence has continued as authorities grappled to cope with one of the heaviest snowfalls in two decades in Kashmir that has brought life to a standstill in several areas and claimed 249 lives. On Thursday seven people were killed when militants stormed the divisional administrative headquarters in Srinagar. |