India: Deadly Clashes Raise Tensions in Kashmir

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The Indian Army has killed a dozen people suspected of being rebels in five days of fighting near the highly militarized line dividing the disputed territory of Kashmir between India and Pakistan, an army spokesman said Friday. The spokesman, Naresh Vig, said the fighting began on Monday after soldiers intercepted some militants crossing into a northern part of Indian-held Kashmir from the Pakistani side. The rebels also made attempts to cross into the Indian side at three other places in a remote and mountainous area of northern Kashmir, leading to fierce gun battles with the army, he said. Accounts of the fighting could not be independently confirmed.