NEW DELHI, India (AP) - Gunmen suspected of being Muslim rebels
burst into homes of Hindu villagers in northern India, took away
seven men and killed them.
Friday night's attacks in Sangrampora, a village 20 miles south
of Srinagar in Jammu-Kashmir state, has created panic among the
Hindu families, Press Trust of India reported today.
Police said the killers fled in the dark and troops were
searching for them, United News of India said.
Hundreds of thousands of Hindus left the Kashmir valley for
Hindu-dominated areas after a Muslim separatist insurgency erupted
there in 1989. A few families stayed behind to look after ancestral
farmlands or businesses.
Rebels in the only Muslim-majority state in predominantly Hindu
India have rarely attacked Hindu civilians, mostly targeting
government officials and security forces.
