Government soldiers killed at least four suspected Islamic militants yesterday, three of them after they had illegally entered the Indian portion of Kashmir from Pakistani territory, an army spokesman said. The army recovered the bodies of three suspected insurgents after an exchange of gunfire in the Gurez sector along the Line of Control, said Col. H. Juneja, the army spokesman.The intruders opened fire when challenged by the army on the Indian side of Kashmir, Juneja told The Associated Press. Another suspected Islamic guerrilla died in a gunbattle early yesterday in Handwara, a densely forested region north of Srinagar, the summer capital of India's Jammu-Kashmir state. The operation lasted more than four hours, Juneja said. Separately, suspected rebels hurled a grenade at a bus stand in Narbal, a village about 15 kilometres (10 miles) north of Srinagar, wounding five civilians, said Farooq Ahmed, a top police official in Kashmir. No group has claimed responsibility for the grenade attack.