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Two Kashmiris gunned down on border, former rebel killed
Khaleej Times, (AFP)
28 November 2003
SRINAGAR, India - Two Kashmiris were gunned down by Indian security forces on Friday as they tried to cross from the Pakistani zone of Kashmir to the Indian side, police said.
The incident happened in the southwestern Poonch district along the Line of Control (LoC) -- the defacto border which divides Kashmir between India and Pakistan.
The armies of India and Pakistan have been observing a ceasefire along the LoC and the other borders in Kashmir since midnight on Tuesday, but the truce does not apply to a Muslim anti-Indian insurgency in the region.
India accuses Pakistan of arming and funding rebels who cross into Indian Kashmir to carry out attacks. Islamabad denies the charge.
Indian army chief, General N.C. Vij is to travel to Kashmir on Friday to review the ceasefire situation, the Press Trust of India news agency said.
Meanwhile suspected Muslim militants overnight shot dead a former colleague, and injured six security force personnel in an ambush, a police spokesman said.
He said militants killed Shabnam Ahmed, a former colleague in Baghe Mehtab, on the outskirts of the summer capital Srinagar.
Ahmed had renounced a pro-Pakistan militant group and joined Ikhwan -- a group formed by surrendered militants to help Indian troops catch ebels engaged in a 14-year-old anti-Indian insurgency. Recently Ahmed had left Ikhwan.
Meanwhile, six federal policemen were injured in an ambush by militants in the Berewa area of the central Budgam district late on Thursday, police said.
More than 40,000 people have died in Kashmir since the eruption of the insurgency in 1989. Separatists put the toll between 80,000 and 100,000.
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