Indian police and suspected Muslim rebels have engaged in a deadly gunbattle at a crowded railway station in Indian-administered Kashmir. Police say the men killed four security officers and wounded at least 12 other people before being killed themselves.
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The attack on Friday came on the eve of a rare trip to Pakistan by Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, who is due to attend a January 4-6 South Asian summit there. The nuclear-armed rivals have fought two of their three wars over Kashmir. "The gunfire has ended. Both the militants have been killed, but the search operations are still going on," said a senior police officer in Jammu. Hundreds of passengers were in the Jammu station at the time of the evening attack. Police surrounded the station and began evacuating it. |