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| Six Die in Indian Kashmir Militant Strike |
| 2014-03-29 |
| [An Nahar] Three suspected rebels disguised in army uniforms hijacked a taxi in Indian Kashmire on Friday and killed three people before being rubbed out by security forces, police said. The attack was the deadliest in months by suspected bully boyz fighting Indian rule in the disputed Himalayan territory and came just ahead of India's general elections in which Kashmiris are slated to vote. The rebels seized the shared passenger taxi early Friday morning near the international border with Pakistain in the south of the scenic territory, police said. The dead included the driver of the vehicle hijacked by the gunnies near Dayalchak, 340 kilometers (211 miles) from Kashmire's main city Srinagar. A passenger and a soldier also bit the dust. The gunnies dressed up in army uniforms fired at the jeep used as a shared taxi to ferry people between towns and then hijacked it, killing the passenger on the spot. They abandoned the vehicle near an Indian army artillery unit a few miles away. Security forces intercepted the gunnies, triggering a three-hour firefight that ended with the deaths of the suspected rebels and one of the soldiers. "All three bully boyz were killed. Their bodies were recovered as well as that of the driver," inspector general of police, Rajesh Kumar, told Agence La Belle France Presse. Kumar said the gunnies have not yet been identified and no krazed killer group has so far grabbed credit for the attack. It was not immediately clear if the gunnies killed the taxi driver or whether he died in the exchange of fire with soldiers, police said. About a dozen rebel groups have been fighting security forces in Indian-administered Kashmire since 1989 for independence or merger of the territory with Pakistain. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 They abandoned the vehicle near an Indian army artillery unit a few miles away. "A little more to the left Aditya!" |
| Posted by: Squinty 2014-03-29 19:42 |