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No end to Kashmir mosque siege SRINAGAR, India, Thursday (AFP) A stand-off between Indian troops and Kashmiri militants holed up in a mosque in Indian Kashmir persisted Thursday following gunbattles during the night, an official said. "One or two militants are still holed up inside the mosque," Tirtha Acharya, spokesman for India's Border Security Force (BSF), told AFP. "There was some intermittent firing during ... the night and in the early hours of Thursday," he said, adding that troops had tightened their cordon around the mosque. The rebel or rebels took refuge in the mosque near Kulgam town, 70 kilometers (43 miles) south of the summer capital Srinagar, on Wednesday after a gunbattle erupted as BSF troops ringed the area. In the initial clash a militant and a BSF trooper were killed while the remaining one or two militants fled to the mosque. "We have not stormed the mosque so far," Acharya said, adding the militants were being asked to give themselves up in order to prevent a firefight within the shrine. |
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