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| Kashmir Korpse Kount |
| 2004-09-03 |
| Fourteen people died and nearly a dozen were wounded in a surge of violence in held Kashmir on Thursday. Police said they shot four militants apparently after they crossed into Indian controlled Kashmir. "The militants were killed once they entered our side after crossing the Line of Control," an Indian police spokesman said. Three militants were shot in the southern district of Rajouri and the fourth was gunned down in Kupwara to the north. Suspected militants overnight shot dead Nazir Malik, a senior official of the state's ruling People's Democratic Party in central Budgam district, police said. Also overnight, militants shot dead a former colleague now working for Indian troops in the southern town of Anantnag, police said. An 18-year-old Muslim boy was killed and his mother and sister injured by militant gunfire in Rajouri district early Thursday, police said, without giving details. Three militants and a soldier from the Indian army were killed during separate clashes in Kashmir, police said. The police spokesman added that three more Islamic militants died during a clash between Lashkar-e-Taiba and Hizbul Mujahideen. Six paramilitary soldiers and three civilians were injured overnight when suspected Islamic militants hurled a grenade at a patrol guarding Srinagar's Nishat Garden. |
| Posted by:Paul Moloney |