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| India-Pakistan |
| Kashmir Korpse Kount |
| 2003-09-02 |
| At least 12 people have been killed in three separate attacks in Indian-administered Kashmir in an upsurge in violence. Thirty people have also been injured in a landmine explosion along a key highway linking the state’s summer and winter capitals. More than 20 people have now died in two days of violence in the restive region which is disputed between India and Pakistan. It follows the The landmine blast took place along the Srinagar-Jammu highway, damaging an army vehicle as well as a civilian bus. A defence spokesman said dozens of soldiers and 17 civilians were wounded. The Hizbul Mujahideen militant group has said it carried out the attack. Suspected militants are said to have killed five members of a Muslim family overnight, in Doda district. They included a village headman, his two brothers, son and a female relative. The headman, Khadim Hussain, is said to have defied a call by militants to step down from his post. In another incident, police say they killed five militants in a shoot-out in the mountainous district of Poonch. A policeman was also killed in the exchange, they said. Also on Tuesday, one alleged militant was killed in an apparent suicide attack on an Indian security camp near the state’s summer capital, Srinagar. Late on Monday night suspected militants blew up a bridge on Thousands of vehicles, including military trucks, were stranded for hours while the authorities repaired the breach. The latest burst of violence follows a bloody weekend in Kashmir, during which Indian forces claim they killed a top militant, Ghazi Baba, after a 10-hour fire-fight. Ghazi Baba, of the Jaish-e-Mohammad group, is alleged to have been the brains behind a string of spectacular strikes against India in recent years. |
| Posted by:Paul Moloney |