Indian cops kill 4 militants in Gujarat

Police were conducting routine searches in Ahmedabad after midnight when they were shot at and returned fire, state police chief A.K. Bhargava said.

"We have not yet been able to establish their links or motives. Some arms and ammo also found. Two of them are Pakistanis and the other two Kashmiris," he said.

He did not explain how police determined the identities of the dead.

In 2002, Hindu-Muslim bloodshed wracked the state after 59 Hindu pilgrims died in a train fire originally blamed on a Muslim mob but later determined by an official inquiry to be an accident.