KASHMIR, INDIA, June 15, 2002: Muslim militants attacked a procession of pilgrims, firing indiscriminately and lobbing grenades, killing two of them and injuring two others in Khora-Kanthwara area of Kishtwar Tehsil in Doda district on Saturday afternoon. The area is about 300 miles north of Jammu. The militants fired from a hilltop in the area when the procession was on way to Kud Mata Devi, the police sources said. Two of the four seriously injured pilgrims later succumbed to injuries, they said. Security personnel accompanying the procession retaliated forcing the militants to retreat in the forest area, the sources said, adding reinforcement has been rushed from various towns of Doda district to track down the ultras. Several attacks on Hindus have occured in this area over the last few years.
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