Indian troops kill 3 rebels in 18-hour-long Kashmir fighting

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Indian officials say nearly 18-hour-long gunbattle has ended in the outskirts of disputed Kashmir’s main city after troops killed three suspected rebels.
Indian paramilitary spokesman Sanjay Sharma says the three militants were killed Sunday in the outskirts of Srinagar. Two counterinsurgency police officials and a soldier are wounded.
Sharma says Indian troops had laid a siege around a neighborhood on Saturday on a tip that militants were hiding there. The fig