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12 die in renewed clashes in Indian Kashmir SRINAGAR, India, Friday (AFP) Twelve people were killed in separate clashes in Indian Kashmir, while homes and shops were gutted in a gunbattle in the troubled Himalayan territory, police said Thursday. An Indian paramilitary trooper was killed in a landmine explosion on a highway in the Singhpora village of northern Baramulla district mid-afternoon Thursday, police said. "The mine was planted on the edge of a road and exploded when a paramilitary man stepped over it," a police spokesman said, adding the victim died on the spot. The victim was part of a security patrol, he said. Indian troops, meanwhile, shot dead five rebels in northern Kupwara district Thursday, police said, adding that 13 houses, two shops and seven cowsheds were gutted in a fire that broke out during the clash in Tikipora village. |
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