Eleven people including a family were killed on Thursday in violence in Kashmir, where a 27-hour siege near a mosque ended violently.
| "Mosque"... "Violently"... The two words kinda go together, don't they? |
Two militants had fled into a mosque on Wednesday after troops ringed Bogund, a village 70 kilometers south of Srinagar, in fighting that initially left dead a militant and a soldier. Sharpshooters killed one rebel Thursday but the second militant hurled grenades and escaped into the adjoining shrine of a Muslim Sufi saint Syed Najbudin Bukhari where he survived for several more hours.
| No doubt everyone was appropriately saddened by their demise... |
In Udhampur district, suspected militants burst into the house of a man identified only as Jamaluddin and shot dead him, his wife, their six-year-old daughter and his mother, district police chief Satvir Gupta said. He suspected the killings were carried out in retaliation after one of Jamaluddin’s sons, who was a rebel, surrendered. Suspected militants also killed a government employee in Budgam distict, while two more civilians died in the cross-fire of rebels and troops elsewhere, a police statement said Thursday. |