Nine killed in Kashmir violence

Monday July 03, 2006 (1340 PST)

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SRINAGAR: Clashes overnight between Indian government forces and suspected Islamic militants who oppose India`s rule in disputed Kashmir left at least nine people dead, police and army officials said on Monday.

Indian forces shot and killed three suspected militants in a clash in the Jammu portion of India`s Jammu-Kashmir state, police said on Monday.

Five other suspected militants and a soldier were killed in two separate clashes in the Kashmir part of the state, the army said.

All of the militants were believed to belong to groups fighting for Kashmir`s independence from predominantly Hindu India or the territory`s merger with Muslim Pakistan, officials said.

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