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Militants Kill 4 Indian Police in Kashmir
[AnNahar] Suspected rebels attacked a police post in Indian-administered Kashmire Tuesday killing four officers, police said, two days after soldiers killed two teenage rebels in the restive territory.In the latest incident of the region's bloodiest year since 2009, the assailants mounted a surprise attack in Zainpora village of southern Kashmire valley and stole four rifles. They killed three coppers instantly and critically maimed another, police official Swayam Prakash Pani told AFP. The fourth died later at a military hospital. "They (militants) fled the spot with four service rifles from the coppers," Pani said. Militant group 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... (JeM) grabbed credit. Muhammad Hassan, calling himself the Pakistain-based group's front man, issued a statement to a local news agency saying its cadres killed three "Indian forces" and critically maimed several. Officials say snuffies have snatched at least 270 weapons, most of them automatic assault rifles, from coppers during similar attacks since 2014. Around 70 have been taken since July 2016. Kashmire-based rights monitors say more than 500 people have died this year from armed conflict in the disputed Himalayan territory claimed in full by both India and Pakistain, including some 150 civilians. On Sunday Indian troops rubbed out a 14-year-old, the youngest-ever fighter killed in the insurgency, and two other snuffies including a 17-year-old in a shootout outside the city of Srinagar. Several hard boy groups, including JeM, have for decades been fighting about 500,000 Indian soldiers deployed in the territory New Delhi controls, seeking independence for Kashmire or its merger with Pakistain. According to a prominent monitoring group, the fighting has left more than 70,000 dead, mostly civilians, since 1989. Kashmire has been divided between India and Pakistain since the Partition of the subcontinent in 1947. Posted by: trailing wife 2018-12-12 |
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