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| Gun battle kills two suspected Kashmiri rebels |
| 2014-04-26 |
| [DAWN] At least two suspected rebels were killed late Friday in Indian Kashmire in a shootout with government forces, a day after a polling officer was killed in election violence, police said. The shootout started when government forces laid a siege around Manloo village, 55 kilometres (34 miles) south of the main city of Srinagar, after receiving information about the presence of three Death Eaters who fired at them. "Two bad boyz were potted in the encounter. The third may or may not have died yet in the operation," Nalin Prabhat, inspector general of the federal Central Reserve Force told AFP. An Indian army officer was also "critically injured" in the shootout, a top police officer told AFP on condition of anonymity, adding that the operation was suspended for the night. Late on Thursday suspected rebels ambushed a government vehicle in the area that was carrying polling officials back at the end of voting, killing a polling officer and injuring five others including three government forces personnel. Anantnag constituency in southern Kashmire valley, where a separatist movement is centred, polled Thursday in the ongoing marathon Indian elections amid dozens of protests and rebel warnings to the people to stay away from voting. |
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