Two Palestinian militants shot dead by Israelis

ISRAELI forces killed two Palestinian militants yesterday, including one wanted for plotting a suicide bombing, as they were returning to their hiding place in a West Bank cave.

The killings came against the backdrop of the first high-level Israeli-Palestinian security talks in months to discuss ways to end 22 months of violence in which more than 2,000 people have been killed.

Israel had been searching for one of the militants, Ali Adjuri, for several weeks.