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Indian army: Suspected rebels kill five soldiers in Kashmir
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SRINAGAR, 12 October 2021, (TON): An Indian army spokesman says “suspected rebels have shot dead five soldiers in Indian-administered Kashmir in the deadliest incident since February.”
Colonel Devender Anand said “one JCO (junior commissioned officer) and four soldiers were killed during a search operation probably by infiltrators, the operation is ongoing.”
The shootings occurred in a mountain pass near the Line of Control (LoC) dividing the disputed Himalayan territory between India and Pakistan.
The shootings were the deadliest attack on military forces in the area since a ceasefire between India and Pakistan along the de facto border was announced in February.
The Kashmir region in its entirety is claimed by both India and Pakistan, who have administered parts of it since their independence in 1947.
For more than three decades, rebel groups have been fighting the Indian soldiers, demanding either independence for Kashmir or its merger with Muslim-majority Pakistan.
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