Originally published on September 26, 2013
At least six people were killed in an attack on a police station in Indian-administered Kashmir on Thursday (September 26). The same militants then attacked an army camp in neighbouring district where a shootout was in progress as of press time.
According to local media, militants dressed in army fatigues first attacked a police station in Hiranagar town of Kashmir's Kathua district, only a mile away from the de facto border with Pakistan. Police said they drove up to the police station in an auto rickshaw at about 6:45 a.m. After storming the police station, they escaped in a truck that they stole after killing the driver. It was reported that they drove along the national highway, where they abandoned the truck before traveling to an army camp in the adjoining Samba district in another vehicle. The militants, disguised as soldiers, were reportedly not stopped at the gate and walked into the camp, where they attacked and killed unarmed soldiers.
According to a Reuters report: "The attack came as Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistan's Nawaz Sharif were due to meet on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly meeting. They were expected to discuss the violence in the disputed Kashmir region.
The report continues:
India has faced an insurgency in its part of Muslim-majority Kashmir since 1989 and has long accused Pakistan of supporting the militants fighting Indian rule.
Pakistan denies arming or training the militants, who cross the border from the Pakistani side of Kashmir into the Indian side, but says it offers moral support to the Muslim people of Kashmir who Pakistan says face rights abuses by Indian forces.
According to South Asia Terrorism Portal, which tracks violence in Kashmir, 128 people, including 44 security personnel were killed in the region this year, up to the latest attack. That compares with 117 people killed last year.
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