2 Indian soldiers, 2 civilian porters killed in alleged rebel ambush in Kashmir

Two Indian service soldiers and their 2 civilian porters were killed successful a rebel ambush successful Indian-controlled Kashmir, officials said Friday.

Police said rebels sprayed bullets astatine an service conveyance carrying soldiers adjacent to the highly militarized enactment of power adjacent the edifice municipality of Gulmarg connected Thursday night. The de facto frontier divides the disputed Kashmir betwixt India and Pakistan, which they some assertion it successful its entirety.

Two soldiers and 2 civilians moving arsenic porters with the Indian subject were killed and 3 different soldiers were wounded, constabulary said. The subject said it was a little firefight and gave nary different details.

There was nary autarkic confirmation of the incident.

On Sunday, gunmen fatally changeable astatine slightest 7 radical and injured 5 others moving connected a strategical passageway task adjacent different edifice municipality of Sonamarg. Police blamed militants warring against Indian regularisation for decades for the attack.

Militants successful the Indian-controlled information of Kashmir person been warring New Delhi’s regularisation since 1989. Many Muslim Kashmiris enactment the rebels’ extremity of uniting the territory, either nether Pakistani regularisation oregon arsenic an autarkic country.

India insists the Kashmir militancy is Pakistan-sponsored terrorism. Pakistan denies the charge, and galore Kashmiris see it a morganatic state struggle. Tens of thousands of civilians, rebels and authorities forces person been killed successful the conflict.

Nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan person fought 2 of their 3 wars implicit Kashmir since they gained independency from British assemblage regularisation successful 1947.