A policeman and a militant were killed in a gunbattle in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Monday, as shops and businesses remained closed in the disputed region to protest the killing of two people by the army. Paramilitary spokesman Kishore Prasad said soldiers and police cordoned off a home in Mandoora village in southern Kashmir, acting on a report that suspected rebels were hiding there. Prasad said the insurgents attacked troops with grenades and gunfire. Two soldiers were wounded in the gunbattle, AP reported. In Kashmir's main city of Srinagar, schools and colleges were shut and shopkeepers closed their stores for a strike called by separatists to protest the killing of the two by the army on Sunday in the northern village of Markondal.
