Two suspected rebels were killed and two soldiers wounded Monday in separate incidents in Indian-controlled Kashmir, police said. Soldiers in the village of Devar cordoned off a house after receiving a tip that insurgents were hiding there. A gunbattle ensued in which an insurgent was killed and two soldiers wounded, said local police chief Vijay Kumar. Separately, government forces shot and killed a suspected rebel in raid Monday on a hide-out in Dooru village, about 60 kilometers (37 miles) south of Srinagar, said Abdul Gani, a senior police officer. Gani said that the rebel was a member of Hezb-ul-Mujahedeen, the largest of a dozen groups fighting Indian rule in Kashmir. There was no independent confirmation of the incident, the Associated Press reported.
