SRINAGAR, 4 September 2003 — An Indian security force member was killed yesterday in a clash with militants in the jungles of Indian Kashmir, while eight people died in other parts of the restive state, police said.
Border guards, meanwhile, went on high alert following waves of militant attacks in the insurgency-wracked region that have left 45 people dead since Sunday, a police spokesman said.
Police attribute the explosion of violence to revenge attacks by militants fighting Indian rule in Kashmir after their commander was gunned down by troops on Saturday.
The clash between a group of seven militants and the security forces in the Kathua border district, 85 kilometers east of Kashmir’s winter capital Jammu, continued until mid-afternoon yesterday, police said.
