20 killed as fighting rages across Indian Kashmir

Twenty people have been killed in Indian Kashmir in some of the fiercest fighting this year in the restive Himalayan region, police said Sunday, as authorities braced for more violence.A total of three Indian soldiers and 13 suspected militants died in several clashes south of Srinagar, the main city of the region.Kashmir has been divided between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan since the end of British colonial rule in 1947, but both claim it in full.