Hindu families flee Kashmir after targeted killings


SRINAGAR (Reuters) - More than 100 Hindu families have fled Kashmir as panic spread after the killing of a Hindu school teacher in India's only Muslim-majority region, a community leader said on Wednesday.

Militants on Tuesday shot dead Rajni Bala, 36, outside a government school in Kulgam that lies south of Kashmir's main city of Srinagar - the latest in a spate of targeted killings of Hindus and Muslims.

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