WORLD IN BRIEF : KASHMIR : 4 Killed by Guards of U.N. Observer
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Four people were shot and killed when Indian security forces guarding an Italian U.N. observer opened fire on protesters in Kashmir. Officials said the guards fired when someone in the crowd outside Srinagar threw a clay pot holding charcoal embers. The guards apparently thought it was a bomb being thrown at the U.N. observer, who monitors an India-Pakistan cease-fire line. The deaths brought to at least 50 the number killed since rioting began on the weekend over India’s control of Kashmir.
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