Two anti-India fighters, woman killed in India-controlled Kashmir
New Delhi forces have shot dead at least two suspected fighters in Indian-controlled Kashmir in fierce clashes that also killed a young woman.
Munir Ahmed Khan, a police official, said on Tuesday that two suspected militants were killed in a firefight that began Monday evening in the southern district of Shopian. He added that a young woman was killed in crossfire.
"One young woman died in the crossfire when one of the militants came out of a house today (Tuesday) and started firing at the security forces," the official said.
Hundreds of Kashmiri people rushed to the scene, chanting anti-India slogans and hurling stones at the troops in protests that continued raging Tuesday morning.
Police opened fire with pellet guns, hospitalizing a dozen people.
A police officer and a soldier were also injured during the violent clashes.
Some witnesses claimed the woman was killed by police during the demonstrations, not in crossfire.
Tensions were already high in the Muslim-majority region after a taxi driver was gunned down during a military operation Saturday evening.
At least 210 anti-Indian fighters have been killed this year amid a military campaign to rout armed groups resisting Indian rule in the disputed Himalayan region.
According to police officials and watchdogs, nearly 80 security personnel and about 60 civilians have also lost their lives in violence across the violence-hit valley.
More than half a million Indian soldiers are deployed in Kashmir since 1989 when popular calls grew for independence or a merger of the territory with Muslim-majority Pakistan.
A former British colony, Kashmir was divided between India and Pakistan in 1947.
Tens of thousands of people, most of them civilians, have been killed in decades of fighting in Kashmir while the neighbors continue to blame each other for the protracted violence.
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