Kashmir remains near normal, no militancy related incident

Saturday, March 17, 2007, 20:50 [IST]

Srinagar, Mar 13 (UNI) The situation in Kashmir was near normal with no major report of any militancy-related incident during the past 24 hours.

There was no report of any militant attack from any part of Jammu and Kashmir, an official spokesman said.

He said, however, unidentified miscreants set on fire a middle school building at Ladoo Panzla in Baramulla district.

Security forces recovered two pistol rounds, two detonators and one binocular at Tral.

UNI

Topics: INSURGENCY-KASHMIR-NORMAL

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