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| Indian troops kill four militants on LoC |
| 2009-08-11 |
| [Dawn] Troops shot dead four people on Monday as soldiers prevented fresh attempts by militants to infiltrate Indian-administered Kashmir from Pakistan, officials said. 'Alert troops killed a militant infiltrator on Monday thus preventing another attempt by the militants to cross the LOC,' Indian army spokesman J.S. Brar told AFP, referring to the Line of Control that splits Kashmir between India and Pakistan. In the southern district of Reasi Monday, security forces shot dead another three militants during a forest gunbattle, a police spokesman said. Police attributed the surge in activity to the Indian national holiday on August 15, which marks the country's independence from British rule in 1947. Since last Sunday, the army has foiled nine attempts by the militants to infiltrate from the Pakistani side of the disputed Kashmir region. The fighting has left nearly 20 militants and three soldiers dead. In New Delhi Monday, Indian army chief general Deepak Kapoor suggested the militants had support from the Pakistani army because of their sophisticated equipment. 'The possibility of a certain amount of support to them (militants) by the established institutions (in Pakistan) cannot be ruled out,' he told reporters. The army says militant attempts to cross the ceasefire line into Indian-administered Kashmir normally increase in the summer as the snow melts in the mountain passes. There has been a sudden spurt in violence in the Himalayan region since last Saturday when militants killed two policemen in Srinagar. |
| Posted by:Fred |