Militants kill 3 Indian soldiers in Kashmir

Suspected militants killed three Indian soldiers after ambushing a convoy in restive Indian-administered Kashmir, officials said yesterday. An unknown number of people on motorbikes opened fire on the army convoy near Pampore town on the key highway a few miles south of Srinagar, the region's main city, officials said. "Motorcycle-borne militants ambushed an army convoy. There have been casualties but details are being ascertained," K. Rajendra Kumar, police chief of the Kashmir region, told AFP. An Indian army official on condition of anonymity told AFP that "three soldiers were martyred in the attack".