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Eid festivities in Indian Kashmir marred by deadly rebel attack SRINAGAR, India, Sunday (AFP) Suspected Muslim rebels in Indian Kashmir killed three policemen on the eve of Eid, Islam's holiest festival, as they guarded a Hindu village that witnessed a massacre in 2003, police said Sunday. The militants stormed the police post late Saturday in Nadimarg, 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Srinagar, summer capital of India's only Muslim majority state where a revolt against New Delhi's rule has raged since 1989. "The area has been sealed off and searches launched to arrest the militants," a police spokesman told AFP. The police post was set up to protect the few Hindu families remaining in Nadimarg where 24 people, including women and children, were killed in March 2003 by suspected militants clad in Indian army uniforms. The villagers, known as Kashmiri Pandits, were dragged from their homes and shot to death. The raid on the police post occurred on the eve of Eid-ul-Fitr which marks the end of fasting month of Ramadan. The attack on the post shattered a usually peaceful few days leading up to the festival in the region where tens of thousands of people have died in the insurgency. |
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