  By MUJTABA ALI AHMAD, Associated Press Writer SRINAGAR, India - Security forces and militants clashed in Indian-controlled Kashmir (news - web sites), killing six suspected rebels and a soldier, while at least 30 civilians were wounded Saturday when a grenade exploded on a busy street, police said. Three of the guerrillas and the soldier were killed and a police officer was wounded in a gunbattle overnight in Punch district, police said. The three other slain rebels were killed in a separate battle in the same region, 95 miles southwest of Srinagar, the summer capital of India's Jammu-Kashmir state, the officer said on condition of anonymity. Meanwhile, rebels threw a grenade at a police patrol in the town of Anantnag, 35 miles south of Srinagar, but it missed and exploded on a street, police officer Saif-ud-Din Shah said.
Six of the 30 wounded were in critical condition and were hospitalized. Shah blamed the blast on Islamic militants fighting for the independence of the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir, or its merger with Pakistan. The 14-year insurgency has claimed more than 65,000 lives, mostly civilians. No group claimed responsibility for the attack. --I wonder if the RoP had anything to do with this? Hmmmm...maybe. DUhhhhh you think? Must be those pesky Taoists. Andrew B. 
