- SRINAGAR, India (Reuters)
- Fifteen people mostly Muslim rebels have been killed in fresh separatist
violence in India's Jammu and Kashmir state, police said on Friday.
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- They said security forces killed three suspected Islamic
militants on a military control line as they tried to slip into Indian
Kashmir from Pakistan early on Friday.
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- The gunbattle took place on the Line of Control in Rajouri
district southwest of Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir.
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- Later on Friday, a policeman and a militant were killed
in another gunbattle in Baramulla district in north Kashmir.
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- Elsewhere, seven rebels two soldiers and a civilian have
been killed in separate shootouts across the region since Thursday evening,
police said.
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- Police in Pakistan said one man was killed and a Pakistani
soldier wounded when Indian troops sent mortar bombs and shells across
the cease-fire line.
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- India and Pakistan said this week they would soon withdraw
troops from their border, easing tension between the nuclear rivals.
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- But both side said there would be no withdrawal of troops
facing the 462 mile Line of Control or cease-fire line that in Kashmir.
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- Nearly a dozen militant groups are fighting New Delhi's
rule in Jammu and Kashmir, country's only Muslim-majority state.
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- Authorities say more than 35,000 people have been killed
in 13-years of separatist violence. Separatist put the toll more than 80,000.
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