Kashmiris get ready for 3rd phase of civic elections
Two people were killed and a Muslim candidate in ongoing municipal elections wounded in a surge of separatist violence in Indian Kashmir, police said yesterday.
A police official said a top-ranking rebel commander of the dominant militant group Hizbul Mujahedin was shot dead by Indian troops overnight in the southern Kashmir district of Rajouri.
In the same district, police said suspected militants abducted three Hindus late Friday.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. "One of them was shot dead, while two others managed to give slip to their captors," a police spokesman said.
In the state summer capital Srinagar, suspected militants overnight shot and wounded Sheikh Mohammed Amin, police said. Amin had contested the second stage of the municipal elections held on Tuesday in Srinagar.
The latest violence comes on the eve of Sunday's third phase of the vote, which will be held in the southern districts of Anantnag and Pulwama.
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