Kashmir - Siege Of Shrine Continues

(26 Mar 1996) T/I: 10:31:09 Indian troops recovered eight bodies from Kashmir's holiest mosque n Tuesday (26/3) as a standoff with heavily-armed muslim eparatists holed up inside the Islamic shrine entered a third day. An estimated 2,000 policemen and members of the paramilitary Border Security Force (BSF) continued to lay siege to the marble shrine on Tuesday in a bid to flush out the 20 heavily-armed JKLF militants inside. The entire area around the lakeside mosque on Srinagar's outskirts was under curfew for the second day. SHOWS: INIGAR, KASHMIR 25TH MARCH bridge leading to hazratbal shrine (2 kms away) media/people waiting, banned from further progress police bus past closed market police control room, srinigar kashmiri crying as he waits outside police control police in jeep armed security in street, closed shops security man, guarded bunker street, armed security man security coming forward, smoke fire, teargassing fire in street, teargassing rubber bullet fired, smoke, teargas teargassing police chasing street, teargas police in strength 224 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...