Srinagar, Nov 4, SPA -- Police in Jammu-Kashmir saidThursday that 1,716 civilians, members of security forcesand rebels have died there in fighting in the first 10months of this year _ 13 percent fewer than in 2003. The number of civilian deaths dropped 46 percent. The new figures raised the estimated death toll in 14years of insurgency and counterattacks to at least 66,000,most of them Muslim civilians. About a dozen rebel groups have been fighting since December 1989 to merge the Indian-controlled part of the region with neighboring Pakistan, or win its independence.--SPA1331 Local Time 1031 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/215369