SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Police in Indian administered Kashmir say they have killed an alleged Pakistani militant accused in the death of a prominent journalist.
Additional Director General of Police Munir Khan says Naveed Jatt and another accomplice were killed Wednesday in a gunfight in central Kashmir's Badgam district.
Jatt is accused of killing Syed Shujaat Bukhari outside his office in Srinagar on June 14. Militant groups have denied they killed Bukhari and blamed it on Indian agencies.
Violence has escalated in the region over the past few days, leaving at least three rebels and a soldier killed.
Rebels have been fighting Indian control since 1989. India accuses Pakistan of arming and training the rebels, a charge Pakistan denies.
Nearly 70,000 people have been killed in the uprising and the Indian military crackdown.
