WORLD IN BRIEF : INDIA : 100 Reportedly Die in Kashmir Ambush

Pro-Pakistan militants killed more than 100 Indian troops in a surprise attack on an army convoy in the disputed Kashmir state, Pakistan said. The official APP news agency said the 350-vehicle convoy was ambushed on the Srinagar-Jammu highway. Indian officials in Srinagar, Kashmir’s summer capital, confirmed that an ambush took place but would not comment on casualties. A Defense Ministry spokesman in New Delhi said he had no information about such an ambush. If confirmed, it would be the most devastating attack by militants in a 19-month-old rebellion against Indian rule over most of Kashmir.