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Indian Army Brigadier Among 11 Killed in Kashmir

Suspected Islamic militants struck an Indian army camp in Kashmir on Tuesday killing eight soldiers, including a brigadier, and wounding two generals before being shot dead, police said. The heavily armed guerrillas hurled grenades and fired wildly as they stormed the camp at dawn some 20 miles northwest of Jammu, the winter capital of the revolt-torn territory at the heart of half a century of tensions with Pakistan. Seven soldiers, including an army Hindu priest, died in the suicide raid that came hours after suspected rebels killed six people and wounded 46 on Monday night in an attack on pilgrims setting out for the Vaishno Devi shrine, one of the holiest Hindu sites in Muslim-majority Jammu and Kashmir. Full Story