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Curfew imposed over shrine dispute in Kashmir
The leader of a Pakistan-based militant group and his bodyguard have been killed in Kashmir, police said on Friday, while at least five soldiers and another separatist guerrilla died in a separate gun battle.
- Agencies
- Published: 12:18 July 5, 2008
- Image Credit: AP
- Jammu and Kashmir policemen extinguish fire during a protest in the outskirts of Jammu, India. A curfew was imposed in the region to prevent protests by Hindus angered due to Amarnath land revocation.
Jammu: Authorities in central India imposed a curfew after two people were killed and several wounded in clashes among Hindus, Muslims and the police over a land dispute involving a Hindu shrine in India-controlled Kashmir.
Two people were killed in Indore, a remote town in the state of Madhya Pradesh, when the police clashed with Hindu and Muslim mobs. Four people died in similar battles in Indore on Thursday.
The violence was set off by a plan to transfer forest land to the Hindu shrine to erect shelters for thousands of pilgrims.
The Kashmir government backed down after protests by Muslims, and the reversal provoked an angry backlash from Hindus.
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