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Two civilians killed in fresh violence in India's Kashmir, say police Suspected Islamic rebels killed a state government worker after abducting him, while another civilian was killed in a shooting between government forces and insurgents Thursday in the Indian portion of Kashmir, police said. Separately, security forces defused a 10-kilogram (22-pound) bomb found hidden in a crowded market place in Srinagar, the summer capital of India's Jammu-Kashmir state, said Imtiyaz Ahmad, a police officer. Unknown assailants shot and killed Abdul Rahim, who worked for the state's irrigation department, hours after abducting him from Awantipora, a village nearly 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Srinagar, Ahmad told The Associated Press. Rahim's bullet-ridden body was found in a rice field, the police officer said. One villager was killed when he was caught in an exchange of gunfire between suspected rebels and soldiers on Thursday in Kawapora, a village about 70 kilometers (45 miles) south of Srinagar, Ahmad said. Civilians often get killed in bombings and shootings in the Indian portion of Kashmir, where more than a dozen rebel groups have been fighting for the region's independence from India or its merger with Pakistan since 1989. More than 66,000 people, mostly civilians, have been killed in the conflict. The rebel groups have vowed to continue fighting Indian forces despite peace efforts by India and Pakistan to settle the decades-old Kashmir dispute, the cause of two of their three wars since they won independence from Britain in 1947.
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