SRINAGAR, Dec 21: Fourteen people, including four members of a family, were killed in fresh clashes in occupied Kashmir on Saturday and Friday night.
The latest attacks came after unknown men shot and killed a newly-elected legislator on Friday.
A police official said three men and a child were killed and three women wounded when gunmen entered a house in Sopore town, and fired indiscriminately.
In a separate incident, a woman was shot dead in Rajouri district, southwest of Srinagar, police said.
In the neighbouring district of Poonch, two Indian soldiers and three Mujahideen were killed in a fierce gunbattle, police said.
Elsewhere, two civilians, a soldier and a militant were killed in separate shootouts since Friday evening, police said.
Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, the new chief minister of occupied Kashmir, said the attacks
were aimed at derailing efforts to bring peace to the held state.
“The attacks on innocents are basically designed to derail the peace process and senseless and brutal killings can lead militants to nowhere,” Sayeed said in a statement.—Reuters
