Separatist Violence Across Kashmir Leaves 16 Dead
Sixteen people, including a child, were killed Saturday in separatist violence in the strife-torn Kashmir region, police said.
The bloodshed in India’s only Muslim-majority state followed a Thursday suicide attack on Parliament in the capital, New Delhi, that left 12 people dead.
Police in Kashmir said seven people, including a 6-year-old girl and a woman, died Saturday when a gun battle broke out between rebels and soldiers near Sopore township north of Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir state.
Earlier, unidentified militants shot dead two senior activists of Kashmir’s ruling National Conference party in Kupwara district, northwest of Srinagar.
Elsewhere, seven people were killed in separate shootouts.
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