Updated Monday, July 21, 2008 0:00 am TWN, Reuters

Army officer among 6 dead in India Kashmir clashes

SRINAGAR, India -- Two Indian soldiers, including an officer, and four suspected Muslim militants were killed in separate gun battles in Kashmir, the army said on Sunday. An army officer and a soldier were killed on Sunday in a firefight with militants in Rajouri area of south Kashmir, a day after nine soldiers were killed in a landmine blast near Srinagar, the region’s main city.

“The encounter broke out on Saturday and still continues,” Indian army spokesman Lieutenant Colonel S.D. Goswami said. Violence has flared up across the Himalayan region ahead of a new round of India-Pakistan peace talks on Monday that are opposed by Kashmiri separatist militants.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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