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| Soldier, Two Militants Killed in Kashmir Gun Battles |
| 2015-08-10 |
| [AnNahar] An Indian soldier and two suspected snuffies were killed in Kashmire in two separate shootouts along the de facto border that divides the restive territory between India and Pakistain, police said Sunday. The two snuffies died when a group of suspected armed rebels crossed the border into India and were intercepted by soldiers, triggering a shootout in Keran, 150 kilometers (90 miles) northwest of Kashmire's main city of Srinagar. "According to sources in the army two snuffies were killed early Sunday morning in the shootout," Javaid Gillani, the inspector general of police for the region, told Agence La Belle France Presse. An Indian army soldier was killed Saturday night in a similar but separate shootout in the adjacent sector of Tangdhar along the heavily-militarized border, Gillani added. The latest shootouts follow a recent uptick in cross border exchanges of heavy fire between Indian and Pak troops. Among them was an attack on an Indian Border Security Force convoy last week in which two border guards and a Death Eater were killed. Another Death Eater was captured. India said the captured Death Eater confessed to be a Pak national but Islamabad has rejected the claim. Kashmire has been divided between the South Asian rivals since they won independence from Britannia in 1947. Both claim the disputed territory in its entirety. Since 1989, several rebel groups have been fighting hundreds of thousands of Indian forces deployed in the region, for independence or a merger of the Himalayan territory with Pakistain. The fighting has left tens of thousands, mostly civilians, dead. India often accuses Pakistain of pushing armed snuffies across the border, a charge Islamabad denies, saying it only provides diplomatic and moral support to the Kashmiri people's struggle for the right to self determination. |
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