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| India-Pakistan |
| Snuffies kill candidate in Kashmir, five others... |
| 2002-09-07 |
| A two-car convoy carrying Abdul Rehman Sheikh, a nominee for a party representing lower castes in the state elections, was ambushed by insurgents while he was campaigning in the Kupwara District. Along with Sheikh, the candidate's driver and two nephews were killed, and at least one other person was injured. Sheikh was a candidate for the Bahujan Samaj Party. Sheikh's son Bashir Ahmad, who escaped the ambush, said in an interview that armed men jumped out of a cornfield as the convoy was passing. At least three of the gunmen were wearing Indian military fatigues, and Sheikh's drivers may have thought they were Indian soldiers. The gunmen ordered the seven bodyguards to drop their weapons, forced the group to line up, and opened fire on some of them. Military officials said they were searching for the attackers, who were believed to be This has been going on for a good long time, and it won't stop after the elections. Suspected guerrillas also fatally shot a Marxist party worker in Nilu, a village in Anantnag District, 40 miles south of Srinagar. And in Pattan, a town about 20 miles north of Srinagar, suspected militants opened fire during a party rally, and one man was killed when he was crushed by a fleeing vehicle. That sometimes happens in areas where homicide is a political tactic... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |