Fighting between Indian security forces and suspected rebels left seven dead in India's portion of Kashmir Saturday, as soldiers raided a village and continued a gunbattle with infiltrators from Pakistan, officials said. The pre-dawn raid by soldiers on the village of Ajar triggered a gun battle in which one suspected insurgent and three soldiers were killed, a local police officer said on customary condition of anonymity. Ajar is about 75 kilometers (46 miles) north of Srinagar, the summer capital of India's Jammu-Kashmir state. On the border, three suspected intruders from Pakistan were killed on the 11th day of a running gun battle with Indian forces, The Associated Press reported. Fifteen of about 35 militants who sneaked into Indian territory through a remote, snowbound mountain pass in the region known as Kabuli Gali on July 13 have been killed, said army spokesman Lt. Col. V.K. Batra.
