4 Indian Soldiers, 2 Fighters killed in Kashmir
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 at 6:36 pm
SRINAGAR: Army search operations triggered two separate gunbattles with suspected Muslim freedom fighters in the Indian-administered portion of Kashmir that killed at least six combatants, officials said Wednesday.
Two soldiers, including an officer, were fatally shot by suspected fighters early Wednesday in Baniyari, a village 28 miles (45 kilometers) northwest of Srinagar, the main city in Indian-occupied Kashmir, a police officer said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to reporters.
The soldiers stormed a house after a tip that rebels were hiding there, the officer said. The insurgents retaliated with heavy gunfire, killing two of them, he said.
Another gunbattle killed two soldiers and two suspected rebels overnight in Ladoo, a forested area 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Srinagar, said Col. K. Umamaheswar, an Indian army spokesman. Two other soldiers were wounded in the fighting, which started Monday, he said.
The fighting began after the army and police conducted search operations in the area, Umamaheswar said.
The accounts could not be independently verified, and there was no word from the freedom fighters who have been fighting Indian rule in disputed Kashmir since 1989. The two-decade-long uprising and Indian crackdown have killed more than 68,000 people, mostly civilians.
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