Nine dead in violence across Indian Kashmir

3 May 2017 10:17 am

SRINAGAR AFP May1, 2017 - India’s security forces suffered a double blow Monday in disputed Kashmir, with five policemen shot dead in a bank raid and two soldiers killed in an attack along the border with Pakistan.   

Suspected militants opened fire on a bank van carrying cash around 70 kilometres (43 miles) south of Kashmir’s main city of Srinagar, killing everybody on board, police said.