July 11, 2002	Thursday	Rabi-us-Sani 29, 1423

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SRINAGAR, July 10: A newspaper editor was shot and wounded on Wednesday by unidentified gunmen in the summer capital of Indian-held Kashmir, police and witnesses said.

In other incidents, a policeman and a civilian were killed in separate firefights involving activists overnight in Kashmir, police said.

Rashid Shahid, editor of the Urdu-language daily the State Reporter, was waiting for a bus when he was fired at by the gunmen in the Chanapora locality of Srinagar, they said.

Shahid was taken to Srinagar’s main hospital where doctors operated on him.

“He has received a bullet each in his neck and arm,” a hospital spokesman said.

Shahid is the second journalist to have been attacked in two months in Kashmir, where nearly a dozen journalists have been killed since the eruption of an armed separatist movement in 1989.

A police spokesman said on Wednesday that some men barged into the house of a policeman Mushtaq Ahmed and shot him dead in the village of Arin, near Bandipora township, 60 kilometres north of Srinagar overnight.

In a separate incident, a civilian was killed when he strayed into crossfire between the activists and the security forces in the neighbouring village of Waternah late on Tuesday, the spokesman said. —AFP