SRINAGAR - Three men were killed in a shootout with Indian security forces in Held Kashmir on Friday. "Three militants were killed in a fierce gun battle in South Kashmir's Shopian district where a poll official was killed last evening ... " South Kashmir police chief Vijay Kumar told Reuters. "We are investigating if it is the same group that attacked a poll party last evening. The dead men were from Hizbul Mujahideen, Kumar said.