Srinagar, India, Nov 22, SPA -- Suspected rebels hurledgrenades at a crowded market and a checkpoint in separateattacks in the main city of Indian-controlled Kashmir onMonday, wounding at least six people, police said. Rebels hurled a grenade into a market in Srinagar, thesummer capital of Jammu-Kashmir state, wounding threecivilians and an Indian army soldier, said police officerEjaz Ahmed. The rebels appeared to have targeted a foot patrol inthe Lal Chowk area, the city's business center, Ahmed said. Hours later, a second grenade attack on a paramilitarycheckpoint in the city left a policeman and a womanwounded, police officer Javed Ahmad said. No one claimed responsibility for the attacks. Elsewhere in the Himalayan region, three people werewounded as security forces fired into a crowd protestingagainst a search operation. The incident occurred in Hushru village, where securityforces were searching houses for rebels, a local policeofficer said. The villagers protested the operation andtried to break the security cordon around their homes,prompting the soldiers to open fire, said the officer, whodid not want to be named. Hushru is about 35 kilometers (20 miles) southwest ofSrinagar. The 14-year insurgency in India's only Muslim-majority state has claimed more than 66,000 lives.--SPA1433 Local Time 1133 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/220542
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