WOMAN BEHEADED, SIX KILLED

July 29, 2004 - (SA) Suspected Islamic rebels decapitated a woman in Indian Kashmir and left her head hanging in a tree, police said on Thursday, adding that six other people were killed in the restive state.

Police were investigating the motive for the beheading of Shameema Akhter near the town of Tral, 40km south of the Kashmiri summer capital Srinagar, a police spokesperson said.

None of the dozen rebel groups fighting Indian troops in Kashmir has claimed responsibility for the murder.
In other violence, Muslim rebels shot dead a pro-government militant in southern Anantnag district and a civilian in Udhampur district, further south, police said.

Indian troops, meanwhile, shot dead three militants in northern Kupwara and southern Poonch districts overnight in two separate encounters, police said, adding that a suspected smuggler died in southern Pulwama district early Thursday in cross-fire between militants and Indian troops.

Thousands of people have been killed in Kashmir since the eruption of anti-Indian insurgency in the scenic Himalayan region 15 years ago.

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