Indian forces kill two suspected militants in held Kashmir

HELD SRINAGAR: Indian forces in held Kashmir killed two suspected militants on Saturday, a day after two other militants were shot dead in a gun battle with police. Forces “moved in cautiously” on Saturday and killed the two militants after tip offs that they were hiding out in the Samba sector, some 350 kilometres (217 miles) from the region´s main city of Srinagar, army sources told AFP. “Two militants were killed near the armoured regiment unit,” Danish Rana, inspector general of police for the region, told AFP. On Friday, two armed militants hijacked a private jeep and killed the driver before lobbing grenades into a police station about 20 kilometres from Samba sector before being shot dead by forces.