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Indian troops kill 2 Kashmir rebels
AP, Srinagar :
Indian government forces killed two militants who tried to snatch a guard’s rifle in disputed Kashmir, police said, and protests against Indian rule and clashes erupted Friday as word of the killings spread.
At least two insurgents were trapped overnight in a home on the outskirts of the region’s main city of Srinagar after they tried to take the rifle from an officer guarding a local leader of India’s ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, police said. The officer was wounded.
Indian government forces killed two militants who tried to snatch a guard’s rifle in disputed Kashmir, police said, and protests against Indian rule and clashes erupted Friday as word of the killings spread.
At least two insurgents were trapped overnight in a home on the outskirts of the region’s main city of Srinagar after they tried to take the rifle from an officer guarding a local leader of India’s ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, police said. The officer was wounded.
