SRINAGAR, July 11: Six Mujahideen and two civilians were killed and 14 civilians injured in fresh violence in occupied Kashmir, police and residents said on Friday.
Indian security forces overnight shot dead a freedom fighter in the village of Mirpora in Budgam during a fierce two-hour long encounter, police said.
In another incident, two Al Badr men were killed by India’s Border Security Force in Maho village of Rajouri district, some 125 kilometres west of Jammu, a BSF spokesman said.
In a similar encounter in the same district, two more Mujahideen were killed overnight in the village of Kothaydar, a police spokesman said.
The two belonged to hardline group Jaish-i-Mohammed — one of the two groups India accuses of attacking its parliament in December 2001.
Also overnight, Indian troops shot dead a 70-year-old, Ghulam Mohiudin, when he went out of his house to relieve himself and was apparently mistaken to be a militant, according to residents.
Police said they were investigating the incident in Laam village near Tral township, 40 kilometres south of Srinagar. The spokesman said there was an anti-government demonstration in the village Friday after the killing.
Police said suspected men shot dead a civilian in southern Udhampur district overnight.
Indian troops shot dead a Mujahid in the northern Kupwara district overnight, a police spokesman said, adding he was identified as Gul Mustafa.—AFP
