Four people were killed in Kashmir, three of them freedom fighters shot dead along the de facto border with Pakistan by Indian troops, while the region's army chief said a ceasefire between the rival militaries was holding. Three Kashmiri fighters were gunned down by security forces yesterday as they tried to cross from the Pakistani zone of Kashmir to the Indian side, police said. The incident happened in the southwestern Poonch district along the Line of Control (LoC) - the de facto border which divides Kashmir between India and Pakistan. The armies of India and Pakistan have been observing a ceasefire along the LoC and the other borders in Kashmir since midnight Tuesday, but the truce does not apply to a Muslim anti-Indian insurgency in the region. India accuses Pakistan of arming and funding rebels who cross into Indian Kashmir to carry out attacks. Islamabad denies the charge. Indian army chief, General N C Vij visited Kashmir frontiers yesterday and looked at the situation along the LoC, army sources said. The army chief of the Kashmir valley, Lieutenant General Nirbhay Sharma, termed the one-day tour as "routine visit to army formations." Sharma told reporters in Srinagar that LoC was peaceful. "Ever since the ceasefire has been announced it has been peaceful on the Line of Control. There has been no unusual activity," he said. He said India's security forces were taking advantage of the lull to mend fences along the LoC. Meanwhile, suspected Kashmir fighters shot dead a former colleague, and injured six security force personnel in an ambush, a police spokesman said. Also the fighters bombed a residential house in northern Kupwara district injuring five people, including two brothers - one a policeman and another a member of Indian border guards, police said. Two more policemen were injured in an ambush by rebels at Pampore, on the outskirts of Srinagar yesterday, police said. **PHOTO CAPTION*** Indian soldier in Kashmir. (AFP/File/Tauseef Mustafa)