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India, Pakistan Exchange Heavy Shelling
The Associated Press
JAMMU, India March 14 — India and Pakistan fired artillery across their disputed Jammu-Kashmir frontier Thursday, police said. Four Indian soldiers were killed.
The shelling began at around 4 p.m. (1230 GMT) in the Punch area and continued for four hours, an officer at the local police control room said on condition of anonymity. Intermittent firing and shelling was continuing, he said.
The area is 137 miles northwest of Jammu, the state's winter capital.
It was not immediately known whether there were any casualties on the Pakistani side.
Shelling had wounded two people Tuesday after a lull of more than two weeks on the frontier where thousands of soldiers have been deployed by the rivals, which have shared mutual enmity since India was partitioned in 1947 to create the Islamic nation of Pakistan.
Police said two civilians were killed in another attack Thursday in the area when Islamic militants opened fire on passengers in a jeep. At least five others were injured, including an 18-month-old baby, police said.
The 13-year insurgency that has killed more than 61,000 people. Attacks are increasing in the Jammu region, a major part of the former princely state that has remained largely untouched by violence.
Earlier Thursday, an explosion killed four passengers in a bus parked at a station in Rajauri, about 70 miles northwest of Jammu. Police said 20 people outside the bus had been admitted to a hospital with injuries from the explosion.
The army was called in to halt stone-throwing protests over frequent militant attacks in the region.
On Tuesday, an explosion outside a sweets shop in Rajauri killed one civilian and injured 11.
The rebels want the mainly Muslim region to be independent or have it merge with Pakistan. India accuses Pakistan of funding and training the militants, a charge Islamabad denies.