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| Soldier, 'suspected militant' killed in Indian-held Kashmir |
| 2015-09-03 |
| [DAWN] An Indian soldier and a suspected Kashmiri freedom fighter were killed on Wednesday during a gun-battle in Indian-held Kashmire, the latest clash in the restive Himalayan region, a police officer said. Acting on a tip-off, the Indian forces confronted at least one Lion of Islam inside a house in the village of Ladoora 70 kilometres northwest of the main city of Srinagar. "One Lion of Islam was killed and we had a fatal casualty of a soldier in the initial stage of the gunbattle," Gharib Das, deputy inspector general of police for the area, told AFP. Das said it was unclear if more faceless myrmidons were in the area. Government forces killed four suspected rebels last Thursday and captured another during a day-long battle in forests in the same area. Several rebel groups have for decades battled hundreds of thousands of Indian troops deployed in the region, seeking independence for Kashmire or its merger with Pakistain. |
| Posted by:Fred |