Twenty-one people including a top militant leader were killed Friday in a second straight day of surging violence in held Kashmir, police said. Twenty-three people died in violence on Thursday.
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Counter-insurgency police in Srinagar on Friday shot and killed Mohammed Rafiq, a senior commander of al-Omar Mujahedin group, a police spokesman said. Rafiqâs relatives alleged that he was arrested late Thursday and killed in custody.
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Al-Omar Mujahedinâs supreme commander Mushtaq Zargar said the death of Rafiq was âa big loss to us.â He named Khalid Javed as the slain guerrillaâs successor.
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Troops killed 10 more militants in clashes while suspected guerrillas killed seven soldiers and three civilians, police said. |