Suspected Islamic militants open fire on paramilitary base

Описание: (4 Oct 2006) SHOTLIST
1. Wide of hotel, scene of stand-off, with bullets hitting exterior AUDIO gunfire
2. Mid shot of same
3. Paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel lying in position on the ground AUDIO gunfire
4. Close-up of hotel exterior being hit with bullets AUDIO gunfire
5. People running for cover from area
6. People running with hands up
7. Jammu and Kashmir armoured police taking positions at scene AUDIO gunfire
8. Vehicles and paramilitary personnel outside hotel
9. Various of paramilitary personnel
STORYLINE
Security forces on Wednesday stormed a hotel from which suspected Islamic militants opened fire on a paramilitary base in the centre of the main city in Indian-controlled Kashmir.
A policeman was killed in the raid.
Police said the gunmen began shooting at the base in the busy Lal Chowk area of central Srinagar from the nearby hotel.
At least two other people were seriously wounded in the ongoing operation, said the head of a paramilitary force that had gone into the building, ending a three-hour standoff.
Intermittent gunfire could be heard as the forces went in to the building.
At least nine armoured vehicles were parked outside the hotel and a dozen jeeps filled with soldiers pulled into the area and surrounded the hotel.
Police cordoned off the area, trapping dozens of residents of nearby buildings.
The manger of the Standard Hotel, the scene of the standoff, and another man were shot and wounded, according to a doctor at the local hospital.
The manager was in a critical condition he said. It was not clear who shot them.
A Kashmiri militant group, Al-Mansor, claimed responsibility for the attack.
An unidentified man, claiming to be a spokesman for the group, told the local Central News Agency that three of its men carried out the attack.
Al-Mansor is one of the smaller groups operating in the area.
Anti-India sentiment runs high in Kashmir, India's only Muslim-majority state, where most people favour independence from Hindu-majority India or a merger with Pakistan.
Kashmir is partially administered by India and partially by Pakistan.
More than a dozen Islamic rebel groups have been fighting security forces in Indian-administered Kashmir since 1989.
More than 68-thousand people, most of them civilians, have died in the conflict.

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