WORLD IN BRIEF : INDIA : 12 Die in Kashmir Secession Violence

At least 12 people were killed in a flare-up of secessionist violence in India’s Jammu and Kashmir state, official sources said. The officials in Jammu, the state’s winter capital, said security forces shot dead seven pro-independence militants who crossed into Indian-ruled Kashmir from Pakistan. Two wounded militants were arrested, and ammunition was seized, the officials said. In Srinagar, the summer capital, four people died in clashes between militants and security forces, while in the southern valley town of Anantnag, militants kidnaped and killed a police inspector. More than 300 people have been killed in the Indian-ruled section of Kashmir since mid-January.