(2 Nov 2024)
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Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir – 2 November 2024
1. Various of flames and smoke billowing from residential house where suspected militant was hiding; house was set on fire by security forces
2. Various of soldiers and armoured vehicles at site of gunfight
3. Various of neighbourhood, UPSOUND gunfire
4. Various of soldiers at site
STORYLINE:
A suspected militant was killed in a gunfight with government forces in Srinagar in Indian-administered Kashmir, officials said Saturday.
Police and paramilitary soldiers exchanged fire with at least one militant after troops cordoned off a neighborhood on a tip that he was hiding in a house in the region’s main city of Srinagar.
Residents said the troops torched the home where the rebel was trapped, a common tactic employed by Indian troops in the Himalayan region.
There was no independent confirmation of the incident.
In a separate incident, soldiers intercepted a group of militants in a forested area in southern Anantnag district on Saturday, leading to a gunbattle that killed two rebels.
India and Pakistan each administer a part of Kashmir, but both claim the territory in its entirety. The nuclear-armed rivals have fought two of their three wars over the territory since they gained independence from British colonial rule in 1947.
Militants in the Indian portion of Kashmir have been fighting New Delhi’s rule since 1989.
Many Muslim Kashmiris support the rebels’ goal of uniting the territory, either under Pakistani rule or as an independent country.
India insists the Kashmir militancy is Pakistan-sponsored terrorism.
Pakistan denies the charge, and many Kashmiris consider it a legitimate freedom struggle.
Tens of thousands of civilians, rebels and government forces have been killed in the conflict.
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