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Seven injured in gunbattle in snowbound Kashmir village
SRINAGAR, India - Five Muslim civilians and two Indian soldiers were injured in a gunbattle with Islamic militants in a snowbound village in Kashmir, an army spokesman said on Thursday. âMilitants attacked an army foot patrol in the snowbound village of Surigam in (northern) Kupwara district late Wednesday, injuring an officer and a soldier,â said spokesman Vijay Batra. âIn the ensuing exchange of fire, five civilians were also injured,â Batra said, adding all five were out of danger.Batra said the militants managed to escape from the area under cover of darkness. Kupwara borders Pakistan-administered Kashmir and is prone to infiltration by militants into the Indian zone of Kasmir. Indian Kashmir is in the grip of a 16-year-old insurgency against Indian rule that has so far left some 44,000 people dead by official count. Separatists put the toll twice as high Posted by: Steve 2006-01-19 |
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