18 die in Kashmir violence

Published September 5, 2003

SRINAGAR, Sept 4: Eighteen people including 14 Mujahideen have been killed in the latest clashes in occupied Kashmir where violence has surged recently, threatening peace moves between India and Pakistan.

Police said 16 people were wounded in the clashes across the strife-torn Himalayan region late on Wednesday and on Thursday.

In one incident, two freedom fighters tried to raid an army camp in Poonch district, but were killed. A woman was also killed and four children were wounded. No one claimed for the attack.

Elsewhere, 12 Mujahideen, two civilians and a soldier were killed in separate clashes across the region, police said.—Reuters

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