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Militants kill 2 in Poonch district

By Mukhtar Ahmad in Srinagar
March 13, 2003 22:28 IST
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Two persons were killed and three, including a child, wounded when militants opened fire on the vehicle [Sumo] in which they were travelling near Dhandak village in Poonch district of Jammu on Thursday evening.

Police identified the dead as Azmat Hussain and Sher Hussain. The injured were shifted to a nearby hospital.

No one has yet admitted responsibility for the attack, which came hours after four passengers of a bus died in an explosion in Rajouri.

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Mukhtar Ahmad in Srinagar