Suspected rebels hang policeman, kill Hindu in Kashmir

INDIA: Suspected Muslim militants hanged a counter-insurgency policeman and shot dead a Hindu member of a self-defence group in revolt-hit Indian Kashmir, police said Thursday.

The policeman was hanged within hours of his kidnapping in the southern district of Pulwama late Wednesday, a police spokesman said.

Around the same time heavily-armed militants broke into the house of a Hindu who was a member of the village self-defence committee, and shot him dead. The killing was reported from Udhampur district, further to the south of Indian-held Kashmir.

The state-funded committees are armed by the government with the aim of protecting villagers from rebel attacks. Most of the committee members are Hindus. Srinagar, Thursday, AFP