Six Slain in Kashmir Amid General Strike
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Gunfire and a grenade blast in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir claimed six lives as the Himalayan territory observed the anniversary of the killings of two separatist leaders.
In Srinagar, schools and colleges closed and shopkeepers shut their stores for a general strike called by separatists.
The Awami Action Committee called the strike to mark the 1990 killing of its leader -- Kashmir’s then-chief cleric, Mirwais Mohammed Farooq -- by unknown assailants. Twelve years later, another prominent separatist leader, Abdul Ghani Lone, was shot while addressing a rally marking Farooq’s death.
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