SRINAGAR, Sept 23: Suspected Kashmiri militants shot and killed an Indian paramilitary soldier and critically wounded another on Monday in a busy market in Srinagar, police said.

The militants, armed with a pistol, shot the soldiers from the Central Industrial Security Force while they were buying vegetables, a senior police officer said.

“One of them died on the spot and the other is hospitalised with critical injuries,” the city’s police chief said.

In a separate incident on Monday morning, India’s army claimed that they hadkilled a militant who was trying to infiltrate the forested Machil area, 140km northwest of Srinagar.

“He (the militant) fired on being challenged and was killed in the ensuing gunfight,” Colonel Brijesh Pandey said.—AFP