Assailants sprayed bullets toward a row of civilian homes in a remote village in Indian-controlled Kashmir, leaving at least four civilians dead and five injured, police said yesterday.
Police blamed militants fighting against Indian rule for decades for carrying out the attack at Dhangri village in southern Rajouri district, which is close to the highly militarized Line of Control that divides the disputed region between India and Pakistan.
Yesterday, a child was killed and five people injured in a blast that occurred near one of the houses targeted overnight in the village, police said.
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It was unclear whether the explosive was left behind by the attackers.
Two shooters indiscriminately opened fire on Sunday night at three houses in Dhangri, Indian Police Service official Mukesh Singh told reporters.
He said that four civilians were killed and five were injured.
Authorities rushed police and soldiers to the area and launched a search for the attackers.
Officials said police were investigating the two incidents in the village.
Nearly three dozen people in the southern city of Jammu protested the killings that Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir Manoj Sinha called a “cowardly terror attack.”
“I assure the people that those behind this despicable attack will not go unpunished,” he said.
There was no independent confirmation of the attack.
India and Pakistan each claim the divided territory of Kashmir in its entirety.
Rebels in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir have been fighting New Delhi’s rule since 1989.
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