Surge in Violence in Kashmir Claims 17 Lives
From Times Wire Reports
Suspected Islamic rebels set off an explosion in a Himalayan tunnel and fought gun battles across the Indian-held portion of Kashmir in a surge of violence that killed 17 people, police and army officials said.
Among the dead were four people killed when a bomb went off in the Jawahar Tunnel on the highway connecting Srinagar and Jammu -- the summer and winter capitals of Jammu and Kashmir state.
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