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Elderly woman among dead SRINAGAR, India, Jan 15 (AFP) Ten people, including an elderly Muslim woman and her son, were killed in fresh rebel violence in Indian Kashmir, police said Friday. Three soldiers and two Islamic militants died during two days of fighting in the central Kashmir district of Budgam in which the two sides exchanged automatic weapons fire. "The fighting erupted Thursday evening when troops ringed a residential house on a tip-off that militants were hiding there," a police spokesman said. Troops shot dead three other rebels during another gunbattle in the southern district of Rajouri, a police spokesman said. Meanwhile, suspected Islamic militants killed overnight a member of Ikhwan - a pro-India militant group formed by former separatist rebels - and his 60-year-old mother in southern Anantnag district, police said. Ikhwan members help Indian troops in their bid to crush a 15-year-revolt against New Delhi's rule that has claimed over 40,000 lives by official count. The separatists put the death toll at between 80,000 and 100,000. Violence has continued in the state despite a tentative peace process between nuclear rivals India and Pakistan aimed at settling their dispute over the scenic Himalayan region, the trigger of two of their three wars. Each country holds Kashmir in part but claims it in full. |
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