May 6, 2002	Monday	Safar 22, 1423

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SRINAGAR, May 5: Indian troops on Sunday killed eight Mujahideen in disputed Kashmir and four more people died in violence elsewhere in the Himalayan territory, police said.

Indian soldiers shot dead three of the Mujahideen along the Line of Control, a police spokesman said in Srinagar.

He said three armed men were killed in an encounter in southern Poonch district after they illegally crossed the LoC from Azad Kashmir.

An Indian army soldier was also injured in the fighting that lasted several hours, he said.

Indian troops and state policemen killed two more Kashmiris in the adjoining area of Dhok Wali, the police spokesman said.

A Kashmiri villager was fatally hit by a stray bullet during a firefight on Sunday between soldiers and Mujahideen in the northern district of Baramulla, the spokesman added. Three other Kashmiris and an Indian trooper were killed on Sunday in three separate gunbattles in southern Kashmir.—AFP