Eight Indian police officials dead, 20 injured in Kashmir militant attack

Aggressors killed eight Indian police authorities and harmed 20 when they assaulted a security escort in northern Jammu and Kashmir state on Saturday, a police representative said, in an assault asserted by Islamist bunch Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).

Two men assaulted a caravan of India's Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) on a thruway close to the Pampore town, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from the state capital Srinagar. The aggressors were slaughtered by CRPF authorities who were guarding the roadway, police representative Bhavesh Kumar Choudhary said.

Dr. Abdullah Gaznavi, a representative for LeT, told Reuters by telephone that the assault was completed by individuals from the gathering's suicide squad. Gaznavi asserted 13 CRPF police authorities were killed in the battling that went on for 60 minutes.

Savagery in Kashmir has spiked against a setting of rising social pressure and separatist feeling in the Muslim-lion's share district, which for quite a long time has been at the focal point of a key tussle amongst India and Pakistan.

In May, activists shot dead three Indian policemen at point-clear range. In February, aggressors assaulted a transport conveying police reservists close Srinagar, before breaking into a preparation establishment.

India and Pakistan have battled two of their three wars since freedom in 1947 over Kashmir, which they both case in full yet lead to a limited extent.

India blames Pakistan for preparing and equipping the renegades in the segment it controls and sending them to the Indian side, a case its neighbor denies.

Mehbooba Mufti, state boss clergyman, censured Saturday's assault. "The main reason for such blood-scattered demonstrations of viciousness is to add to the tragedies and torments of the general population," she said in an announcement.

(Composing by Aditya Kalra, Editing by Rafael Nam and Digby Lidstone)
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