Rebel attacks kill three soldiers, injure 22 in Indian part of Kashmir

  • 12/15/2022
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SRINAGAR, India, June 1, SPA -- Suspected rebels attacked a paramilitary camp, a police post and an armyvehicle in Indian-controlled Kashmir in an upsurge inviolence on Friday, killing three government soldiers andwounding another 22, police said. A grenade attack at the paramilitary camp killed at leasttwo soldiers in Nihama, a village 75 kilometers (45 miles)south of Srinagar, capital of India's Jammu-Kashmir state,Police chief S.P. Pani said. Three soldiers critically wounded in the blast were taken to a hospital, Pani said. «We are verifying from where the grenade was lobbed,»Prabhakar Tripathy, a spokesman for the Central ReservePolice Force, told The Associated Press. Also Friday, the suspected rebels fired at a police post at Sheeri, a village 70 kilometers (45 miles) north ofSrinagar, killing one policeman and critically woundinganother four, said Viplav Kumar, a senior superintendent of police. No one claimed responsibility for the two attacks.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/454983

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