Suspected Muslim militants have shot dead eight Hindus and wounded six others during an attack on a village in India's revolt-racked state of Jammu and Kashmir, police said.
"During the intervening night, militants shot dead eight people, all Hindus in two adjacent houses at Narala village," a police official told reporters today.
Narala lies in the state's Rajouri district, some 280 miles southwest of Srinagar, the summer capital of the Himalayan state.
The official said there were no further details yet, adding that no militant group had claimed responsibility for the killings.
About a dozen militant groups are fighting India's rule in Muslim-majority Kashmir, where authorities say about 33,000 people have died in 12 years of rebellion. Separatists put the toll closer to 80,000.
India which controls 45 per cent of disputed Kashmir accuses Pakistan of arming and training militants. Pakistan which rules over a third denies the charge and says it only offers moral, political and diplomatic support to Kashmiri separatists.
The two nuclear rivals are locked in a tense military stand-off after an attack on India's parliament last December, which New Delhi blamed on Pakistan-based rebels. Close to a million troops have been mobilised on both sides of the border.