SRINAGAR, India (AFP) ? Three suspected Islamist militants and an Indian soldier were killed in a gun battle on Friday in the Indian zone of divided Kashmir, a senior police official said.
The guerrillas, thought to belong to the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group, were killed by Indian troops in the village of Maidanpora, 120 kilometres (70 miles) north of Kashmir's main city Srinagar, he said.
Five other Indian soldiers were injured in the fighting, which lasted for eight hours, police superintendent V.K. Birdi told AFP.
Virdi said the firefight broke out after soldiers and policemen encircled a house where some Lashkar-e-Taiba militants were holed up.
"The house, where the militants had taken shelter, was razed during the encounter," Virdi said, adding that an effort was on to retrieve the bodies of the slain militants from the debris.
"We were tracking the movement of the group for the last two weeks and finally we trapped them," he said, adding that the house owner and his relatives fled the premises before the fighting erupted.
Virk identified two of the slain militants as Pakistani nationals.
For more than 20 years, militant groups in Indian-administered Kashmir have fought against New Delhi's rule in the highly militarised Himalayan region.
Violence in Indian Kashmir has been stoked by Pakistan-based groups that send militants over the de facto border that divides Kashmir between the two countries.
India also believes the Lashkar-e-Taiba and a Pakistani intelligence service staged the November 2008 attacks in Mumbai, which left 166 people dead and severely strained ties between the two nuclear-armed South Asian rivals.
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