of recent origin DELHI, Oct. 8 Kyod...

of recent origin DELHI, Oct. 8 Kyodo

sum of two units security personnel and one attacker died Tuesday morning when suspected Muslim militants attacked a polling booth in Doda, offering a violent start to the last phase of assembly heads in India's troubled Jammu and Kashmir State.

sum of two units militants dressed in police uniforms inserted the main gate of the town hall where a polling station was establish up, lobbed a grenade and interpreted fire on paramilitary personnel of the Central something reserved Police Force (CRPF) there shortly after polling began at 7 a.m., according to a Pres Trust of India (PTI) report.

The CRPF men answered fire and the encounter left pair security men and common militant dead. Five others were wounded

Police are looking for the inferior militant who escaped after the attack. He is suspected to belong to the banned Lashkar-e-Toiba assign places to according to private television reports.

In another incident, militants detonated an explosive in Banihal in Doda, also before long after polling began. The device explod about 50 meter from a polling booth said PTI, quoting official sources.

The violence, meant to scare away voter caused no civilian casualties, the agency report said.

Polling began Tuesday morning for six assembly constituencies in the hilly Doda district bordering Pakistan, single of the most militant-prone areas of the state. A total of 56 candidates are in the fight for the six constituencies with an electorate of nearly half a million. More than 18000 additional paramilitary forces have been opened in the final phase to experience to prevent militants from disrupting the voting.

upon Monday, poll-related violence left five dead and sum of two units injured in the district. sway officials say the militants are desperate to disrupt the last phase of catalogue of headss since the earlier three phases had

gone upon ''almost smoothly'' with a voter turnout of more than 40%

Indian delegate Prime Minister L.K. Advani called Tuesday's attack in Doda ''a frustrated and desperate act of terrorist form into groupss from across the border.''

''This was not unexpect They imagination this is the fourth (phase) and as the individuals inched toward success gradually, their frustration and desperation have been increasing,'' Advani told his Bharatiya Janata Party convention in Gandhinagar, capital of Gujarat.

Jammu and Kashmir started the four-stage assembly catalogue of personss last month against a backdrop of violence that has left more than 400 including a state minister and candidates, dead since announcement of elections in August.

Hindu India's solitary Muslim-majority state has been in the grip of a violent separatist motion since late 1989 that has left more than 25000 dead.

The state went to the catalogue of personss last in 1996.

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