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Kashmir Korpse Kount
- At least 20 people were killed in Indian-administered Kashmir on Saturday, including eight people in a powerful car bomb explosion outside a crowded fruit market in Parimpora on the outskirts of Srinagar.
- In another incident, militants set off a landmine injuring two people and damaging an army bus which fell into a gorge in Doda district. The landmine, planted on a link road near Jammu and Kashmir highway at Chirala, exploded around 11.45am, official sources said.
- In other violence, a policeman and civilian were killed when three militants attacked a police station in Poonch district, AFP reported. Two militants were killed in another encounter in Poonch.
- Also in Poonch, suspected militants barged into a house in a remote village and killed two Muslim women. The attackers slit the throats of Mumtaz and Firdous Kausar in the Bafliaz area of Poonch on Friday night.
- Police said two Jaish-e-Mohammad militants were killed overnight when troops raided a suspected hideout in the central Pulwama district. A police spokesman said two more Islamic rebels were killed in a clash at Bandipora, 60 kilometres north of Srinagar.
- Meanwhile, the fierce gun battle between Indian troops and militants holed up in the Ghati area of Kathua district entered the fifth day on Saturday with no signs of an immediate end. Security forces began closing in towards the area from where the militants had been firing continuously.
Posted by: Paul Moloney 2003-09-07 |
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