THREE SECURITY PERSONNEL AND TWO SUSPECTED REBELS WERE KILLED IN SEPARATE GUNBATTLES IN INDIA'S PART OF KASHMIR ON TUESDAY, POLICE SAID. THE TWO REBELS WERE KILLED AFTER SOLDIERS AND POLICE ACTING ON A TIP CORDONED OFF THE VILLAGE OF CHATIPORA IN SOUTHWESTERN KASHMIR, SPARKING A GUNBATTLE, SAID POLICE OFFICER NITISH KUMAR. A POLICEMAN WAS ALSO KILLED IN THE FIGHT, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTED. CHATIPORA IS ABOUT 65 KILOMETERS (40 MILES) SOUTH OF SRINAGAR, THE MAIN CITY OF INDIA'S JAMMU-KASHMIR STATE. MEANWHILE, TWO PARAMILITARY TROOPERS WERE KILLED WHEN REBELS OPENED FIRE ON THEM IN SRINAGAR, POLICE SAID. THE TROOPERS WERE PATROLLING SRINAGAR'S DALGATE AREA WHEN THE REBELS FIRED, KILLING ONE TROOPER AND FATALLY WOUNDING THE OTHER, SAID FAROOQ AHMED, THE DEPUTY INSPECTOR-GENERAL OF POLICE. AN UNIDENTIFIED MAN CLAIMING TO BE FROM THE GROUP JAISH-E-MOHAMMED TOOK CREDIT FOR THE ATTACK IN A CALL TO THE KASHMIR NEWS SERVICE LATER TUESDAY.
