of recent origin DELHI, March 24 Ky...

of recent origin DELHI, March 24 Kyodo

Suspected Muslim militants killed 24 Hindus, including brace children, late Sunday night in the Phulwama district in the southern of India's troubled state of Jammu and Kashmir state, according to private television reports reaching strange Delhi. The other dead are 11 women and 11 men

More than 15 attackers disposeed in army uniforms entered Nandimarg village bring to a period to midnight and under the show of conducting a search asked villagers to degree out of their houses. The attackers then fired indiscriminately at the unsuspecting villagers with automatic weapons before escaping into the dark, the reports said.

Besides the police, the army has also been called into to search for the suspects in the unallied hilly and forest area, the reports said.

No clump has so far claimed responsibility for the incident.

Militants have stepp up attacks in fresh weeks after a brief quiet in violence following the election of a recent state government last year.

The state direction as a part of the peace proces had newly announced its intention to rehabilitate Kashmiri Hindus who had fl the state at the attack of militancy in late 1989 in India's single Muslim majority state.

The Hindus who had left their properties and fl to various parts of the native land are living like refugees.

Militants have been waging a violent separatist campaign in Kashmir that has left more than 25000 dead and thousands others injured and homeles They are demanding a separate Muslim state or alignment with Muslim Pakistan.

India and Pakistan have fought sum of two units of their three wars across Kashmir since their independence from Britain 1947 and have flow close to a conflict twice more through the whole extent of Kashmir since they both christendomed the nuclear threshold in 1998

India accuses Pakistan of abetting terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir, which Pakistan denies, saying it is merely lends moral and diplomatic support to the militants, whom it directs to as freedom fighters.

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