Some hostages rescued after militant standoff in Kashmir
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Indian security forces have rescued five hostages held by suspected militants in the troubled Kashmir region.
The hostage drama began when security forces pursued three men suspected of attacking an army post on the outskirts of Indian Kashmir's second largest city, Jammu.
The militants killed four people including a soldier, commandeered a rickshaw and barricaded themselves in a house in a residential part of the city, holding at least eight hostages.
Local television broadcast images of one of the militants being gunned down by security forces as he left the house.
The 18-hour standoff ended when the third militant was killed.
Police say three men taken hostage were killed by the militants, but four children and a woman who had been shot in the leg were spared.
