11 dead, including civillians, as gunfight sparks protests in Indian Kashmir: Police Kashmiri Muslims carry the body of slain militant Zahoor Ahmad Thoker from a window at Sirnoo in Pulwama, Kashmir, on Dec 15, 2018. PHOTO: EPA-EFE PUBLISHED DEC 15, 2018, 9:48 PM SGT FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL SRINAGAR (AFP) - Seven civilians were killed as Indian troops fired on protesters on Saturday (Dec 15) after a gunfight left three armed rebels and a soldier dead in the disputed region of Kashmir, police and hospital officials said. The fighting erupted soon after troops laid siege to a house in the southern Pulwama area in Indian-administered Kashmir where the militants were hiding, a police officer said. Three armed militants - including a former soldier who had joined the rebels - then jumped out of the house into an orchard to fight the soldiers and were killed. The fighting also left a soldier of the Indian army dead, senior police officer Swaya