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| Five Lashkar militants killed in IHK clashes |
| 2009-03-15 |
| Troops in Indian-held Kashmir shot dead five members of Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LT) in clashes on Saturday, police said. Hemant Lohia, a senior police officer, told AP four gunmen hid in a mosque in Kishtawar district in Srinagar as army and police cordoned off the area during a search operation on Friday night. When the gunmen refused to surrender police opened fire. Three of the militants were killed, while one remains in the mosque, said Lohia. Separately, two more LT members were shot dead by security forces later on Saturday in another gun battle in north Kashmir, police said. New Delhi says the LT was behind last November's attacks in Mumbai in which nearly 170 people were killed, a charge the radical group has denied. Officials say more than 47,000 people have been killed since an anti-India insurgency broke out in 1989 in the disputed Himalayan region. But overall violence involving Indian troops and separatist guerrillas has declined significantly across Kashmir since India and Pakistan began a slow-moving peace process in 2004. New Delhi put a pause on the dialogue after the Mumbai attacks. |
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