Seven Killed in Resistance Attacks in Indian Kashmir

06/07/2002| IslamWeb

HIGHLIGHTS: Deaths Include General Secretary of a Pro-India Political Party||Attacks Cover Summer Capital Srinigar, Doda District in the Southeast as Well as Elsewhere||Indian Forces Kill 2 Armed Kashmiri Nationalists in Doda District|| STORY: Seven people including a pro-India politician have been killed in resistance shootouts in the restive Kashmir region, Indian police said on Friday. Resistance attacks are continuing in the disputed Himalayan region despite an easing of tension between nuclear-armed neighbors India and Pakistan, which have been brought close to war.
Suspected armed Kashmiri nationalists on Friday shot dead the general secretary of Awami Mahaz, a pro-India political party, in Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, Indian police said. (Read photo caption)

Two other people including the chairman of the party were injured in the shootout. No group has claimed responsibility.

Earlier on Friday, Indian security forces shot dead two armed Kashmiri nationalists in a gun battle in Doda district southeast of Srinagar, police said.

Elsewhere unidentified armed nationalists have killed four civilians in separate shootouts in the troubled region since Thursday evening, police said.

Some dozen Resistance groups are engaged in a revolt that officials say has claimed more than 33,000 lives since 1989.
Separatists put the toll nearer 80,000.

PHOTO CAPTION

Kashmiri Muslim Ghulam Mohi-ud-Din Wani, an activist from the Congress Party, India's main opposition party, is rushed on a stretcher to a hospital for treatment in Srinagar, July 6, 2002. Police said that militants outside his residence in the city shot Wani. REUTERS/Arshid Mir