stepping up the tempo while Perv's visiting W?
The jeep in which the men were travelling was blown apart when it ran over the landmine late on Saturday in Pulwama, south of Srinagar. A spokesman for Kashmir's frontline rebel group Hizbul Mujahideen called newspaper offices in Srinagar and claimed responsibility for the blast.
The victims included the jeep's driver and another civilian accompanying the soldiers who were headed for an operation against militants, said to be hiding in nearby mountains. "It was a huge explosion, it shook the whole area," a police officer said.
Soldiers in the neighbouring district of Anantnag shot dead three militants after laying a siege around a mosque where the rebels had taken shelter, an army spokesman said. He said the militants died after a night long gunbattle that ended on Sunday.
a mosque?...where's that damn surprise meter...
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Muslim militants fighting Indian rule in Kashmir have often take refuge in mosques when they are chased by soldiers, who generally do not enter places of worship to avoid angering people in India's only Muslim-majority state. Guerrilla violence has increased in Kashmir in recent weeks, which experts said could be aimed at derailing a new round of talks between India and Pakistan over the Himalayan region. The two sides are due to meet later this week to consider a popular demand to start