SRINAGAR – Police in Indian-controlled Kashmir said Wednesday that government forces killed three suspected militants in a gunfight in the disputed region’s main city, but families of the slain men alleged they were killed in a staged gunbattle.The families contested that the three were anti-India militants, saying they were “innocent." The killings come days after police in the Himalayan region charged an Indian army officer and two others with killing three laborers in a faked gunfight in July.Kashmir is split between India and Pakistan and both claim the mountain region in its entirety, fighting two wars over it.
In the latest violence, police said in a statement that three militants were killed in an overnight operation in the outskirts.