- Thursday, April 25, 2024
By: Radhakrishna N S
Indian troops killed six separatist militants in a gun battle in Kashmir on Friday (23), the army said, taking the death toll for the year to the highest in nearly a decade. So far this year, 400 people have been killed in Kashmir, India’s only Muslim majority state, and more than half of them were guerrillas fighting Indian rule. It is the highest toll since 2008 when 505 people died. Indian forces have stepped up an offensive against militants operating inside the Kashmir Valley as well as those trying to intrude from across the border with Pakistan, officials say. The…
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