SRINAGAR, Aug 17 (2007): Two paramilitary police officers were killed and eight others wounded on Friday when their vehicle ran over a bomb planted by suspected separatist militants in Kashmir, police said. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, which took place near Sangam town, 40 km (25 miles) south of Srinagar, summer capital of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. A police official said damage to the vehicle had been substantial. Of the injured, five were in a critical condition. Rebel violence...

SRINAGAR, Aug 14 (2007):Troops found 13 more bodies in a destroyed army ammunition depot in Indian Kashmir, taking the death toll from a huge fire and explosions at the site to 17, officials said on Tuesday. Most of the dead were soldiers or firefighters who died after the fire broke out on Saturday, triggering massive explosions that sent shells and shrapnel falling on nearby villages. Army spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel A.K. Mathur said nine soldiers were still missing. The fire, the blasts and the resulting flying...

NEW DELHI, Aug 13 (2007): Nearly 90 percent of people living in Kashmir's summer capital want their troubled and divided state to become an independent country, according to a poll in an newspaper on Monday. India and Pakistan have fought and argued over the Himalayan region ever since partition in 1947, but 87 percent of people questioned in Srinagar have no allegiance to either side. Only 3 percent of the mainly Muslim inhabitants of the city think Kashmir should become part of Pakistan, and 7 percent prefer Indian...

SRINAGAR, Aug 3 (2007): Twenty-four people, including five policemen, were wounded on Friday when suspected separatist militants threw a grenade in a crowded marketplace in Indian Kashmir, police said. No militant group has claimed responsibility for the attack which took place in Banihal town, which lies 110 km (70 miles) south of Srinagar, Kashmir's summer capital. Rebel violence has increased in the Himalayan region in recent months because the onset of summer has made it easier for militants to trek into Indian...