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Kashmir Korpse Kount
 A day of violence left nine people including five militants, a Lashkar-e-Taiba commander and an election candidate dead in gunbattles and bomb attacks in held Kashmir, authorities said on Tuesday. Indian border guards suspected early on Tuesday that several militants were sneaking into Indian territory in the mountainous Achhar sector, near the Line of Control (LoC) that divides the two Kashmirs, said BD Sharma, inspector general of the Border Security Force. "We detected an infiltration bid last night in Poonch district and five infiltrators have been killed," Sharma told The Associated Press, adding it was the biggest attempt by militants this year to enter Kashmir.
| The mortar fire from the Pak side of the border may have been the tip-off... |
Sharma said the infiltrators were detected near an electrified barbed-wire fence that India has constructed to stop fighters from entering Pakistan. It covers 580 kms of the 745-km LoC. An Indian army truck was blown up later on Tuesday by an improvised explosive device in nearby Jugal-Sukhi village, killing a soldier and injuring two others, Sharma said.
| Looks like some got through... |
The local commander of the Lashkar-e-Taiba group and another militant was shot dead by Indian soldiers in Doda. The slain commander was identified as Farooq Mir, but Sharma couldn't confirm his identity. Meanwhile, suspected militants overnight shot dead a candidate in next month's municipal polls, AFP reported. Noorudin Sherwani was ambushed in Baramulla as he was returning from a mosque, police said. He was the first candidate to be killed by militants opposed to the municipal elections. Sherwani belonged to the state government's coalition partner Congress, which also rules India nationally.
Posted by: Fred 2005-01-19 |
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