Five killed in Kashmir violence

Published May 27, 2005

SRINAGAR, May 26: Three Indian soldiers and two militants were killed and four soldiers wounded in two separate clashes on Thursday in remote villages of occupied Kashmir, police said. One gun battle left two militants and an Indian army soldier dead in the northern Kupwara district on Thursday morning. Four soldiers were wounded.

“The fighting is continuing and reinforcements have been sent to the area,” the police spokesman said. A separate gun battle in a remote village in the southern district of Doda left two Indian soldiers dead the same day, the spokesman said.

“Both the gun battles were reported from remote villages,” he said.—AFP

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