India's home minister says three suspected militants killed in a gunfight in Kashmir were responsible for a massacre earlier this year

Indian troops have killed three suspected militants in a gunfight in Kashmir. Officials said Monday the clash occurred in a forested area near the disputed region's main city of Srinagar.

The Indian home minister's account of forces killing who he said were three Pakistanis involved in the April attack on Hindu tourists in the Jammu and Kashmir federal territory was "replete with fabrications",