Indian troops were out in strength checking vehicles and frisking people yesterday after major clashes in Indian Kashmir's main city left four people dead and 21 injured, officials said.
The clashes around Lal Chowk, the main business area in the summer capital Srinagar, ended on Saturday evening after 24 hours of sporadic firefights.
The two suspected Islamic militants who had attacked a security bunker and later barricaded themselves inside a hotel and a shopping complex were killed.
The clashes also left two Indian troopers dead and 21 people, including seven photojournalists, injured.
Paramilitary forces and policemen were yesterday checking vehicles for arms and explosives and frisking passers-by at several sensitive spots, including Lal Chowk and adjoining areas.
"I have asked my boys to be on the lookout for suspects," a top official from India's Border Security Force (BSF), K. Srinivasan, said.
"We are strengthening area domination, concentrating on good intelligence-gathering and have also increased vehicle searches," he said.
Srinivasan led the 24-hour operation against the militants.
He said despite provocation by the rebels, who opened heavy fire on troops, the security forces had observed restraint and had eventually killed the two without any loss of civilian life.
The BSF, backed by federal and local police, were not allowing anyone to park their cars in non-parking areas yesterday and were demanding identity documents from people in the street.
Every day scores of buses, cars and jeeps enter Srinagar with tourists from various Indian states.
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