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Kashmir: Woman and two fighters killed in a gun battle
[Al Jazeera] Two fighters and a 25-year-old woman were killed in a firefight with Indian soldiers in Indian-administered Kashmire, sparking protests and calls for a general strike. Hundreds of residents marched towards the shoot-out that continued overnight on Tuesday in Batmuran village in southern Shopian district. Soldiers fired live ammunition and pellets at protesters to prevent them from reaching the scene, witnesses said. "Two Death Eaters were killed in the shootout, one of them belonged to Hizbul Mujahideen ... Party of Holy Warriors, .jpg) founded by Muhammad Ahsan Dar in September 1989. One of the Pak sock puppets waging jihad in Indian Kashmir. It was originally organized as the armed wing of Jamaat-e-Islami. In 1990, Dar declared Hizbul as the sword arm of Jamaat. Hizbul murdered many of the pro-independence intelligentsia in Kashmir. After the organization was taken over by Syed Salahuddin Dar and several other ex-Hizb leaders were assassinated between 2001 and 2003... , and another belonged to Jaish-e-Mohammad ...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf bannedthe group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat... ," police superintendent Shriram Ambarkar told Al Jazeera. More than 20 people were maimed in festivities between stone-throwing youth and security forces, officials said. Ambarkar said the woman, identified as Ruby Jan, was killed unintentionally. But residents said she was "deliberately" shot by soldiers. "She was critically injured in the crossfire. We are investigating the circumstances under which she died. The situation is under control," said Ambarkar. Posted by: Fred 2017-12-20 |
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