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Five Islamic rebels killed by Indian troops in Kashmir SRINAGAR, India, Saturday (AFP) Five Islamic militants were killed in separate overnight clashes with Indian troops in the Himalayan region of Kashmir, a police spokesman said Saturday. Three of the rebels were shot dead in two different encounters by Indian forces in the northern Kashmiri district of Baramulla, which borders Pakistan-administered Kashmir, the spokesman said. Two of the militants -- Abu Umar Salfi and Abu Abbas Ali -- belonged to the pan-Islamic Lashkar-e-Taiba group, one of the many active in Kashmir, he said. Lashkar is one of the two groups India blames for an attack on its national parliament in December 2001 that killed 15 people, including the attackers, and sent tensions with Pakistan soaring. New Delhi accuses Islamabad of arming and funding Islamic militants battling Indian rule in Kashmir. Kashmir has been the cause of two of the three wars between India and Pakistan since 1947. Both control parts of the scenic Himalayan region but claim it in its entirety. More than 37,500 people have died since the eruption of an anti-Indian rebellion in the scenic region in 1989. Separatists put the toll twice as high. Elsewhere in Kashmir, two more rebels were killed in similar clashes overnight in southern Rajouri district, also bordering Pakistani zone of Kashmir, police said. |
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