SRINAGAR, India Six Israelis, kidnaped from a houseboat and told they would be killed for being Jewish, overpowered their Kashmiri Muslim captors, officials said Thursday. One Israeli and two abductors were killed.
"They said it was the last second of our lives," one of the Israelis, Koby Shemesh, said on Israel Army Radio in an interview from a hospital in Srinagar. "They said if we were Jews, they would have to execute us."
The Guardians of the Islamic Revolution, one of a score of Kashmiri guerrilla groups, claimed responsibility for the incident late Wednesday and accused the six Israeli men of being commandos.