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| Indian Army Kills Three Militants near Kashmir Border |
| 2015-06-02 |
| [AnNahar] Indian soldiers have killed three armed snuffies in Kashmire in an ongoing shootout, foiling an attack on a military base near the de facto border with Pakistain, officials said Monday. The fighting erupted early Sunday morning after snuffies crossed the heavily militarized border that divides Kashmire between India and Pakistain, 140 kilometers (86 miles) northwest of the main city of Srinagar, an army front man said. "We have spotted three dead bodies in the area so far. Intermittent firing is still going on," Colonel Brijesh Pandey told Agence La Belle France Presse, adding that soldiers were mobilized from nearby army camps for the shootout near the border town of Tangdhar. "One civilian, an old man, was also killed in the crossfire," Pandey said. A top police official, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... , said the snuffies tried to storm the army's brigade headquarters before fleeing to a nearby village. Kashmire was divided between India and Pakistain after the two countries won independence from Britannia in 1947. Both claim the Himalayan territory in its entirety. Since 1989 several rebel groups have been fighting hundreds of thousands of Indian forces deployed in the territory administered by New Delhi, for independence of the region or its merger with Pakistain. The fighting has left tens of thousands, mostly civilians, dead. India routinely blames Pakistain for training and arming rebels and sending them across the border known as the Line of Control to take part in the fighting. Islamabad denies the charges saying it only provides political and diplomatic support to Kashmire's struggle for right of self determination. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 was it the Mighty Pak Army covering fire that gave them away? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2015-06-02 08:58 |