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Five die in Kashmir gunbattles SRINAGAR, India, Saturday (AFP) Four Muslim rebels and an Indian army soldier were killed in two separate encounters in the southern Poonch district of Indian-administered Kashmir, a police spokesman said Saturday. He said three militants were killed near the Line of Control (LoC) - the defacto border that divides Kashmir between nuclear-rivals India and Pakistan - in the frontier village of Sagra. An Indian army soldier was also killed. Indian troops searched a forest area where they believed some of the rebels had managed to escape. It was the third encounter this week along the LoC in Poonch. In two previous encounters 13 militants were killed. Meanwhile, police said a Pakistani militant, Mohammed Ayoubi, was shot dead in another encounter in Surankote area of Poonch. They said he belonged to hardline Lashkar-e-Taiba group - one of the two groups India blames for an attack on its parliament in December 2001. More than 38,000 people have died in Kashmir since the eruption of armed anti-India insurgency in 1989. Violence has shot up since a new Indian pointman on the region arrived in Kashmir on Monday to talk to elected representatives and other sectors of the Kashmiri society. |
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