Eleven killed in Kashmir police HQ gunbattle

Nine Indian policemen and two attackers were killed in an attack on the police headquarters in Srinagar, the capital of the Indian…

Nine Indian policemen and two attackers were killed in an attack on the police headquarters in Srinagar, the capital of the Indian state of Kashmir.

Kashmir chief minister Mr Farooq Abdullah said that two of the militants who stormed the control room had been killed and two others had escaped.

"This morning we recovered seven more bodies of policemen and two bodies of militants in and around the police control room complex," the senior police official said, adding that the army had been called in to search the complex for attackers.

Police said earlier that two policemen had been killed.

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A spokesman of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group claimed responsibility the attack, saying that a four-member suicide squad had stormed the control centre. The attackers, who used guns and grenades, stormed the control room late last night near the main gate of the complex in the heart of Srinagar.

Muslim separatists took up arms against Indian rule in Kashmir 11 years ago. More than 30,000 people have died in the revolt.

Reuters