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Eight die, 13 wounded at Kashmir INDIA, Aug. 27 (AFP) - Eight people were killed and 16 wounded in a wave of violence in Indian Kashmir, officials said Friday as a senior separatist said he planned to call a conference of leaders from both sides of the divided state. An army official said Indian troops shot dead four members of Kashmir's most powerful Islamic rebel group, Hizbul Mujahedin, while suspected rebels killed a public servant and his son. "The militants were killed in two separate clashes late Thursday in the districts of Anantnag and Pulwama," army spokesman Vijay Batra told AFP. Both districts lie south of Indian Kashmir's summer capital Srinagar and are considered strongholds of Hizbul, which wants all of Kashmir to be joined with neighbouring Pakistan. Also Thursday, suspected militants shot dead a government official and his son in the southern district of Rajouri, police said. Police blamed militants for two more shootings in which a village head and a Kashmiri working in the Indian army were killed in the districts of Baramulla in the north and Budgam in the southwest respectively. None of the dozen rebel groups active in Kashmir has claimed responsibility for the four killings. |
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