Indian soldiers and Islamic rebels clashed in disputed Kashmir on Saturday in two separate gunbattles that killed eight guerrillas and two paramilitary soldiers, officials said. The first gunbattle broke out following an army raid on the village of Mainar. Soldiers killed six rebels in the village 45 miles north of Srinagar, the summer capital of India’s Jammu-Kashmir state, said Lt. Col. Mukhtar Singh, an army spokesman. Fighting also erupted following a separate raid in Rakhlajora, a village 40 miles south of Srinagar. Two suspected rebels and two paramilitary soldiers were killed in the gunbattles, said Tirath Acharya, a spokesman for paramilitary Border Security Force. Full Story
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