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By AP
17 May 2008 @ 05:43 am EST

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SRINAGAR, India - The army says six rebels have been killed in a gunbattle between security forces and suspected Islamic militants in Indian-controlled Kashmir.

Indian security personnel belonging to the Central Reserve Police force frisk a youth as others wait for their turn at a checkpoint outside a market in Srinagar, India, Wednesday, May 14, 2008. Security has been stepped up across the country after a series of blasts in crowded areas left at least 80 people dead in the western Indian city of Jaipur on Wednesday. (AP Photo/ Dar Yasin)

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Indian army spokesman Lt. Col. Anil Kumar Mathur said the rebels were killed Saturday after army and police jointly cordoned off the forest area of Lurgam village following a tip off that militants were hiding there.

Lurgam is 30 miles south of Srinagar, the summer capital of India's Jammu-Kashmir state.

Mathur said the rebels belonged to the Jaish-e-Mohammad militant group.

There was no immediate comment from the rebel group.

Islamic militants are fighting for independence from mainly Hindu India or a union with Muslim-majority Pakistan which controls the other half of Kashmir.

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