SRINAGAR, Indian-ruled Kashmir (Islamweb & News Agencies) - In the latest upsurge in violence in the troubled Indian-ruled state of Kashmir, Resistance groups set off a bomb killing one person while security forces killed five Resistance men on Tuesday as more than 20,000 mourners marched at a funeral for three Islamic Resistance men killed in a battle at the shrine of a Shia Muslim sheikh.
The blast in the heart of Srinagar, the state's summer capital, killed a civilian and injured eight people, including four soldiers of the paramilitary Border Security Force.Earlier on Tuesday, Indian occupation forces shot dead five Resistance men in a gunbattle in Poonch, 300 miles southwest of Srinagar and close to the border with Pakistan.
The violence followed Monday's killing of three Resistance during a 12-hour siege of a mosque in Srinagar where they had taken shelter.
Meanwhile, thousands of villagers shouting anti-Indian slogans attended a funeral on Tuesday for those three Hizbul Mujahideen fighters.
``Allah-o-Akbar (God is great). We want freedom, Indian forces go back,'' they shouted.
Latest reports from Jammu, 185 miles south of Srinagar, said five more Resistance men had been killed on Monday.
Two Resistance men belonging to the pro-Pakistan Hizbul Mujahideen were killed following a gunbattle with Indian occupation forces.
Violence in Kashmir has soared since an India-Pakistan summit earlier this month failed to produce agreement on the countries' dispute over the region.
More than 100 people, most of them Resistance men, have been killed since the July 15-16 summit in the Indian city Agra.
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Indian occupation soldiers rush to the scene of a gun battle with Resistance men holed up in a mosque at the village of Goigam in the northern Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, July 30, 2001. Three Muslim Resistance men who took refuge in a mosque in Kashmir were killed in an exchange of fire with Indian occupation forces laying siege to it. (Fayaz Kabli/Reuters)