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Eight dead as rebels storm Kashmir paramilitary camp
[Al Jazeera] Four Indian soldiers and three fighters were killed in festivities as rebels stormed a paramilitary camp in the southern region of Indian-administered Kashmire, officials said.

Another paramilitary personnel died after suffering a heart attack during the encounter on Sunday.

Rajesh Yadav, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) front man, told Al Jazeera that fighters fired at a group of police in Lethpora village on Sunday morning at around 2am before entering the building.

"This was a [rebel] attack. The Lions of Islam were four in number, two were killed along the fencing and two managed to enter the campus," he said. "The search is ongoing for a fourth terrorist."

The 160-acre camp in the volatile Pulwama district serves as a training centre and a CRPF base, Yadav said.

Shabaz Ahmad, a 28-year-old Lethpora resident, told Al Jazeera that he was woken up by the rattle of gunfire.

"We couldn't understand what was going on until the morning, when we heard that ongoing fire was some distance away from our area in the camp," he said. "The earth-shaking blasts and kabooms reverberated until late afternoon. The noise of firing is still on, the camp is around two kilometres away from the residential area."
Posted by: Fred 2018-01-01
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