Five rebels killed in gun battle with Indian soldiers in Kashmir

Indian army vehicles leave after a gun battle in Shopian, south of Srinagar, in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Friday (Dar Yasin/AP)

Government forces killed five suspected rebels, including a teenager, in gun fights in Indian-controlled Kashmir, police said on Sunday.

The back-to-back clashes began late on Saturday after troops cordoned off two villages in southern Kashmir’s Shopian and Bijbehara areas on intelligence that anti-India militants were hiding there, police said.