Srinagar - Twenty-one Muslim separatists and four other people have been killed in fierce fighting with Indian security forces in Indian-administered Kashmir, police said yesterday. Eleven Islamic separatists were shot dead yesterday in a clash near the town of Mendhar, 430 kilometres south of Kashmir's summer capital Srinagar.
The encounter erupted when Indian security forces sealed off the village of Singhpora. The militants tried to shoot their way out of the cordon, but security forces returned fire and killed the separatists.