Senior Indian officials yesterday admitted that members of the paramilitary Border Security Force went on a ‘shameful’ rampage of killing in the mountainous north-west state of Kashmir on Wednesday. The state governor, Girish Saxena, has ordered an inquiry into the security forces, who set fire to hundreds of shops and houses and allegedly massacred more than 55 Kashmiri civilians in revenge after separatists ambushed a military patrol. More here.