May 27, 2003	Tuesday	Rabi-ul-Awwal 24,1424

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JAMMU, May 26: Overnight incidents in occupied Kashmir killed 14 people, including eight suspected Kashmiri fighters, a police spokesman said on Monday.

Five members of a shepherd family, including a woman and three children, were killed by suspected Kashmiri fighters in a remote village in occupied Kashmir, police said on Monday.

A senior police official said the Kashmiri fighters forced their way into a house in Keri Khas village, near the frontier with Pakistan, late on Sunday and opened fire, killing the five on the spot.

A second attack left three Mujahideen and one special officer of the Kashmir police dead in Surankote in the border district of Poonch, 240 kilometres west of Jammu, the spokesman said.

Five Kashmiris were killed in a separate encounter in the same area.

On a tip-off that Kashmiri fighters were hiding in the area, we cordoned the area off and started a search operation. In the ensuing encounter, we killed five Mujahideen, Lieutenant Colonel B.S. Rathore said.—Agencies