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14 killed in Kashmir violence

AFP, Srinagar
Fourteen people were killed in Indian Kashmir yesterday in stepped up violence since the Indian prime minister visited the region in mid-November, the Indian army said.
Kashmir's pro-Pakistan rebel group Hizbul Mujahedin claimed responsibility for the attack on the security personnel and said 12 soldiers were killed, Srinagar-based Current News Service said.
In further violence, Indian troops yesterday shot dead three Kashmiri militants who had barricaded themselves inside a mosque near Kulgam
township after fleeing a military search operation, an army spokesman said.
A team of soldiers had entered the village Saturday evening on a tip-off that militants were hiding there.
The landmine blast was the deadliest since May when 29 soldiers and their families died in a similar explosion on a highway in the northern state. Hizbul also claimed responsibility for that attack
A police spokesman said at least nine Indian soldiers died when a private jeep ran over the mine killing
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all 11 people on board, including a policeman and a civilian.
"All the 11 people died instantly with a few of them being blown to pieces," he said, adding the village had been sealed by army and para-military forces and searches launched.
Militants claimed to have snatched six assault rilles, three radio sets and a light machine gun from the dead soldiers.
The troops were returning to camp from a counter-insurgency operation late Saturday.
Meanwhile, a grenade fired in the summer capital Srinagar exploded 300 meters (yards) short of a lakeside grave of former Kashmir chief minister Sheikh Abdullah during a commemoration ceremony, police and witnesses said.
Abdullah's son and former chief minister Farooq Abdullah and grandson Omar Abdullah were offering prayers at the grave when ’the grenade was fired.
"Despite a deafening explosion the function went on smoothly," a police spokesman said, adding it was not clear whether the Abdullahs and other senior party workers were the target.
The two have been targeted for their pro-India leanings, and last month the duo had narrowly escaped when rebels detonated a bomb just steps away from them.
Violence has surged since Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visited Kashmir in mid-November, although nuclear-armed India and Pakistan began a peace process last year to resolve their dispute over the Himalayan region, which they each hold in part and both claim in full.
Indian troops have been fighting since 1989 to crush an insurrection against New Delhi’s rule in the Muslim-majority region.
More than 40,000 people have died in insurgency-related violence since 1989, according to official figures. Separatisessay the death toll is at least double that