{"id":722,"date":"2017-05-05T00:49:57","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T00:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/?p=722"},"modified":"2017-05-05T00:49:57","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T00:49:57","slug":"kashmir-attacks-indian-soldiers-mutilated-and-police-shot-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/2017\/05\/05\/kashmir-attacks-indian-soldiers-mutilated-and-police-shot-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Kashmir attacks: Indian soldiers mutilated and police shot dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

India\u2019s security forces have suffered a double blow in Kashmir, with five police officers shot dead in a bank raid and two soldiers killed in an attack on the border with Pakistan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Early on Monday, the Indian army accused Pakistan of killing two of its soldiers and mutilating their bodies in an \u201cunprovoked\u201d rocket and mortar attack in the disputed border region.<\/p>\n

The army said Pakistani troops attacked a patrol operating between two border posts on the de facto frontier known as the line of control in the remote Himalayan region.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn an unsoldierly act by the Pak army the bodies of two of our soldiers in the patrol were mutilated,\u201d it said, warning of an \u201cappropriate response\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Pakistani army denied responsibility for the cross-border attack, and said the mutilation claims were false. \u201cPakistan army is a highly professional force and shall never disrespect a soldier, even Indian,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

India\u2019s defence minister, Arun Jaitley, said the incident was \u201cthe handiwork of a neighbouring nation\u201d.<\/p>\n

In a separate event later in the day, suspected militants opened fire on a bank van carrying cash about 45 miles (70km) south of Kashmir\u2019s main city of Srinagar, killing everybody on board, police said.<\/p>\n