May 26, 2002	Sunday	Rabi-ul-Awwal 13,1423

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JAMMU, May 25: Indian forces on Saturday claimed killing 11 Kashmiri Mujahideen and admitted losing three of their own soldiers in separate clashes.

An Indian spokesman said police and troops on Friday ringed a wooded area where a group of Mujahideen had taken up positions in Rajouri district, some 150 kilometres from occupied Jammu.

The freedom fighters fired on the soldiers, sparking a gunbattle which killed five of the guerillas, the spokesman claimed. An Indian soldier was also killed in the clash. In two separate gunbattles in the district of Poonch on Friday night, three Mujahideen and an Indian soldier were killed, the spokesman said. A soldier and three more Mujahideen were killed elsewhere in held Kashmir.—AFP