People carry injured local newspaper photographer Aman Farooq who was shot during a gun battle between Indian security forces and holed up militants in Srinagar January 7, 2010. Soldiers shot dead two separatist militants holed up in a hotel in Indian Kashmir on Thursday after an almost two-day gun battle that forced a mass rescue operation of residents, police said. The armed militants forced their way into the five-storey hotel in Srinagar on Wednesday, killing a policeman in one of the biggest attacks in two years in Kashmir's summer capital. A second man died of injuries in hospital. Reuters Pictures logo Reuters Pictures 25 months ago

People carry injured local newspaper photographer Aman Farooq who was shot during a gun battle between Indian security forces and holed up militants in Srinagar January 7, 2010. Soldiers shot dead two separatist militants holed up in a hotel in Indian Kashmir on Thursday after an almost two-day gun battle that forced a mass rescue operation of residents, police said. The armed militants forced their way into the five-storey hotel in Srinagar on Wednesday, killing a policeman in one of the biggest attacks in two years in Kashmir's summer capital. A second man died of injuries in hospital.

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