November 17, 2003	Monday	Ramazan 21, 1424

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SRINAGAR, Nov 16: Twelve people including an Indian army officer and six freedom fighters were killed in separate incidents Indian Kashmir, police said on Sunday.

The soldier was killed when Mujahideen attacked an army patrol in Shopian, 50 kilometres south of Srinagar, late on Saturday.

Afterwards as the army cordoned off part of the town and started a search operation, shooting broke out, which killed two Kashmiri fighters.

Elsewhere, in separate encounters, two Mujahideen were killed, one in Doda district and the other in Kupwara district, while a civilian was kidnapped and later killed by freedom fighters in Anantnag district.

In an overnight encounter, four Mujahideen were killed in Poonch district while an explosion in a house in Lolab in the Kupwara district killed a Muslim couple.—AFP