SRINAGAR: Two night-time raiders killed five soldiers and forced 200 of them to flee their hotel barracks on a tourist island in Kashmir's Dal Lake, but the troops – some of them in rowboats – later surrounded and killed the militants in gunbattles before daybreak, officials said.
The overnight clashes also left five of the paramilitary soldiers wounded, but none of the tourists and other civilians at the popular site were hurt, police Insp-Gen S.S. Rawat said.
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