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WORLD NEWS Wednesday 29 March 2017

3 Kashmir civilians killed in protests against Indian rule

AIJAZ HUSSAIN However, clashes spread
Associated Press to multiple places in the
SRINAGAR, India (AP) — area.
Three civilians were killed Later, government forces
and 28 other people were fired into the crowd, killing
injured in anti-India pro- three civilians, including a
tests that erupted Tuesday teenager, and injuring at
following a gunbattle be- least 20 others, police said,
tween rebels and govern- adding that eight police
ment forces that killed a and soldiers were also in-
rebel in disputed Kashmir, jured in the clashes.
police and witnesses said. An army officer said one
The gunbattle began af- militant was killed in the
ter police and soldiers cor- fighting and one weapon
doned off the southern recovered from the site.
town of Chadoora follow- The officer spoke on condi-
ing a tip that at least one tion of anonymity in keep-
militant was hiding in a ing with military regulations.
house, said Inspector-Gen- Local residents said troops
eral Syed Javaid Mujtaba blasted the house with ex-
Gillani. plosives.
As the fighting raged, hun- In Srinagar, the main city in
dreds of residents chanting Indian-controlled Kashmir,
anti-India slogans marched police stopped an ambu- Smoke rises as munitions fired by Indian army soldiers hit a house during a gun battle in Chadoora
near the area in an at- lance and took custody of town, about 15 miles south of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Tuesday, March 28, 2017. The
tempt to help the trapped the body of a 23-year-old gunbattle began after police and soldiers cordoned off the southern town of Chadoora following
rebel escape. student killed in the pro- a tip that at least one militant was hiding in a house, said Inspector-General Syed Javaid Mujtaba
Gillani. As the fighting raged, hundreds of residents chanting anti-India slogans marched near the
Witnesses said intense tests. The man had been area in an attempt to help the trapped rebel escape.
clashes between rock- brought to a Srinagar hos- (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
throwing protesters and pital where doctors de-
government forces erupt- clared him dead. A police officer, speaking tives for burial later Tues- erations against the mili-
ed just a few hundred me- Police fired tear gas and on a customary condition day. tants.
ters (yards) from the be- swung batons after the of anonymity, said the ac- In recent years, Kashmiris, Rivals India and Pakistan
sieged house, with police dead man’s relatives tion was taken to avoid mainly youths, have pro- each administer part of
and paramilitary soldiers pleaded that they be al- more protests in Chadoora tected anti-India rebels by Kashmir, but both claim the
firing shotgun pellets and lowed to take the body to and the body would be engaging troops in street Himalayan territory in its en-
tear gas to stop the protest. Chadoora area. handed over to the rela- clashes during military op- tirety. q

Bodies of American, Swedish UN experts found in Congo

A.-HADJI MALIRO to identify the bodies as two motorbike drivers, went John Sharp of Hesston, Kan- the identities. This will take
S. MWANAMILONGO the two U.N. experts and missing March 12 while sas, wrote on his Facebook some time.
Associated Press their interpreter as be- looking into large-scale vio- page that the bodies of “All other words fail me.”
BENI, Congo (AP) — The ing found near the Moyo lence and alleged human two Caucasians had been There was no immediate
bodies of an American and river,” said Congo govern- rights violations by the Con- found in shallow graves in comment Tuesday night
a Swedish investigator with ment spokesman Lambert golese army and local mili- the search area for the U.N. from the United Nations.
the United Nations and their Mende. Investigations will tia groups. Congo’s police investigators. Sharp and Catalan’s dis-
Congolese interpreter have continue to find other miss- inspector general Charles “Since no other Caucasians appearance is the first
been found in Congo’s ing Congolese colleagues, Bisengimana said the bod- have been reported miss- time U.N. experts have
Central Kasai province, au- he said. ies were found Monday be- ing in that region, there is a been reported missing
thorities said Tuesday, more Michael Sharp of the Unit- tween the cities of Tshimbu- high probability that these in Congo, Human Rights
than two weeks after they ed States and Zaida Cata- lu and Kananga, the pro- are the bodies of MJ and Watch has said, and it is the
disappeared while looking lan of Sweden, along with vincial capital. Zaida,” he wrote. “Dental first recorded disappear-
into recent violence there. interpreter Betu Tshintela, The confirmation came a records and DNA samples ance of international work-
“After tests ... it is possible driver Isaac Kabuayi and day after Sharp’s father, will be used to confirm ers in the Kasai provinces.q