SRINAGAR, Jan 17 (1991): Kashmiri militants fighting Indian rule killed at least three paramilitary policemen in Srinagar early on Thursday, creating panic in the narrow streets of the old city, police said.
They said the militants struck with grenades and automatic rifles in two normally packed market areas of old Srinagar, summer capital of India’s Jammu and Kashmir state.
Six paramilitary troopers were wounded in the attacks, two of them seriously, they added.
People immediately fled the areas and shopkeepers hauled down their shutters.
About 2,000 people have been killed since the separatist campaign started a year ago in Jammu and Kashmir, predominantly Hindu India’s only Moslem-majority state.
