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| Kashmir Korpse Kount |
| 2004-07-03 |
| At least 22 people including seven policemen and three children were killed in fresh violence in Kashmir, police said on Friday. Six policemen including an officer were killed when the motorcade of a Kashmiri member of the Indian parliament, Lal Singh, hit a landmine and then was fired upon in southern Doda district, a police spokesman said. A police spokesman said the politician, Lal Singh, escaped unhurt. Six policemen and civilians were injured in the attack by the militants, who hid behind pine trees and boulders, the spokesman said, adding that the condition of three policemen was critical. Elsewhere, Indian troops gunned down three militants minutes after they crossed the Line of Control in Kupwara district, police said. Militants killed a policeman and two children aged 10 and 13 died from an abandoned hand grenade in central Srinagar, police said. In two separate clashes between militants and Indian troops in southern Poonch district a militant and a two-year-old Muslim boy were killed, police said. Elsewhere, 8 people were killed in separate shootouts across the region in the 24 hours up to Friday evening. |
| Posted by:Paul Moloney |