May 14, 2003	Wednesday	Rabi-ul-Awwal 11, 1424

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SRINAGAR, May 13: Five people, including a police officer and a woman, were killed in a new bout of violence in occupied Kashmir, a police spokesman said on Tuesday.

Gunmen attacked a police patrol in the heart of Srinagar on Tuesday evening killing sub-inspector Fauja Singh.

Kashmiri fighters were also believed to have shot dead a 22-year-old woman, Fatima Akhter, in northern Kupwara district, while another man, Mohammed Zaman Khan, was killed in the southern Poonch district overnight. Police said Akhter had been accused of working for security forces.

Another man, Farooq Ahmed Khatana, was killed in a separate overnight shootout in the village of Batakote, near the health resort of Pahalgam, 98 kilometers south of Srinagar, police said.

Indian troops also shot dead a member of Kashmir’s largest rebel group Hizbul Mujahideen near Kulgam, 65 kilometers south of here, police said.—AFP