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| Six Die in Indian Kashmir Militant Attack |
| 2015-03-21 |
| [AnNahar] Two suspected rebels stormed a cop shoppe in Indian Kashmire on Friday, killing three officers and a civilian before being rubbed out by government forces, police said. The heavily armed forces of Evil hijacked a private jeep and killed the driver before lobbing grenades into the station, triggering a shootout with government forces, inspector general of police for the region Danish Rana told Agence La Belle France Presse. "Both the forces of Evil were killed in the following shootout," Rana said, adding that one police officer and two paramilitary troops were also left dead after the shoot-out. Two other troops were maimed in the attack, the first to hit India's only Moslem-majority state since the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) took power this month in a coalition government. Kashmire has been divided between India and Pakistain since independence from Britannia in 1947. Both claim the Himalayan territory in its entirety. Several rebel groups have been fighting Indian forces since 1989 for independence or a merger of the territory with Pakistain. The fighting has left tens of thousands dead, mostly civilians. Armed encounters between rebels and government forces occur regularly, though violence in the region has substantially declined during the last decade. India blames Pakistain for arming the rebels -- a charge Islamabad denies. No rebel group immediately grabbed credit for the attack on the cop shoppe near Kathua, 350 kilometers (220 miles) south of the state capital Srinagar. |
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