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JKLF holding missing Israeli

Kashmiri militants kill govt official, abduct another
SRINAGAR. June 28 : Kashmiri militants today killed a government engineer and kidnapped an executive from the state-owned Indian Oil Corp (IOC), official sources said here, reports AFP.
The sources said the bullet-scarred body of the Muslim engineer, Noor Mohammad Shah, was found in the Bach-pora area of Srinagar city this morning, but that his assailants had not been identified.
Five armed men stormed into a room in the city's Pumpor district where K. Do-raiswamy a Bombay-based IOC executive was holding discussions with other company employees Friday, demanded the most senior company official present and abducted him at gunpoint. IOC sources said.
The militants sped off with the official in a car. they added
Militants last year kidnapped and killed a Hindustan Machine Tool executive and his assistant and a prominent academic and killed them when authorities rejected militants demands for exchanging them for imprisoned colleague.
The new kidnapping took place a day after foreign tourists fled Kashmir valley following a shootout between Israeli tourists and militant kidnappers which left one Israeli and two militants dead and three Israelis wounded.
AP adds: The main Kashmiri separatist group said Friday it had rescued an Israeli tourist who escaped from another militant group and would decide what to do with him.
The tourist. Yair Yltzhaki. was one of six Israeli men who were kidnapped Wednesday night and told they would be executed because they were
Jewish. One of the Israelis was killed and four others escaped Thursday after overpowering their abductors.
Yitzhaki's whereabouts remained a mystery until Friday when the Jammu-Kashmir Liberation Front sent statements to local reporters claiming It had taken custody of the missing Israeli.
The brief statement gave no conditions for his release.
However, the Srinagar correspondent of the British Broadcasting Corporation said the JKLF telephoned him Friday and said it was forming a committee to decide what will be done with this Israeli.
The reporter. Yusuf Jameel, asked to speak to Yttzhaki. He said the Liberation Front telephoned him a second time and let him talk to an English-speaking foreigner who Identified himself as Yltzhaki.
"I am with the JKLF people and they are looking after me", the reporter quoted Yltzhaki as saying.
Jameel said Yltzhaki told him that after he escaped from the kidnappers, he hid in tall grass for about six hours but got thirsty. Yltzhaki said he went to a house in search of water, but someone hit him on the head and several people beat him before the JKLF Intervened.
The Guardians of the Islamic Revolution, one of the smallest and most fundamentalist of a score of Kashmiri militant organizations, claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of the Israelis but did not mention Yitzhaki's fate.
The Jammu-Kashmir Liberation Front Is the oldest and biggest of the Muslim militant groups fighting for independence from predominantly
Hindu India. It is considered one of the most moderate.
After the Israelis were kidnapped. the government ordered all foreign tourists to leave the valley. About 60 foreigners, mostly Israelis, left Srinagar Thursday in buses escorted by armed police. About 30 others flew to New Delhi on commercial flights Thursday and Friday.
More than 2,500 people, mostly Muslim militants and their supporters, have been killed in Kashmir since the government cracked down on the excalating separatist movement in January 1990.
Foreigners generally have been immune from the violence. Erez Kahane, the Israeli who was shot to death when he and his friends tried to overpower their abductors, is the only foreigner known to have been killed.
However. In late March, the Muslim Janbaz (Martyrs) Force kidnapped three Swedish engineers working on a hydroelectric project near Srinagar. They are still being held.
Jammu-Kashmir is the only Indian state with a Muslim majority. About two-thlrds of Jammu-Kashmir's 6 million people are Muslim. Nationwide. Muslims make up 12 per cent of India's 844 million people and Hindus account for 82 per cent.
India has set aside restrictions on Israeli personnel by allowing a consular official to visit Kashmir In connection with an attack on Israeli tourists, a government spokesman said today.
New Delhi has no diplomatic relations with Tel Aviv, whose official presence is limited to a consulate tn Bombay.