Bodies exhumed of Kashmir civilians killed in disputed raid

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Authorities in Indian-controlled Kashmir have ordered an investigation into a police raid that killed four people and later exhumed two bodies and returned them to families who say Indian troops shot them in cold blood. Police earlier said the two civilians died in crossfire when government forces on Monday attacked suspected rebels in Srinagar, the divided region’s main city. Witnesses and families of the civilians and one suspected rebel have denied the police version of events, saying they were deliberately killed by Indian troops while being used as a human shield in the standoff. Authorities later secretly buried all of the victims in a remote northwestern village. Following public outrage, two of the bodies were exhumed and returned to relatives.