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Kashmir guerrillas now target mobile phone operations

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Sonal Desai
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MUMBAI, INDIA: Mobile phone operations in north Kashmir have been hit.

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In a span of three days, Kashmiri guerrillas have attacked mobile phone operations after the police in Sopore town seized their hi-tech communication equipment, used for relaying internal communication.

The attacks had a dual impact; one—loss of three innocent lives, and two, 24 mobile towers stopped beaming signals, thereby leading to poor connectivity in the region.

"We have seized the equipment. Those responsible for carrying out the attacks will not be spared," a senior police officer told IANS in Srinagar.

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Lashkar-e-Islam, a lesser known guerrilla group that has owned up responsibility for the attacks, had warned of dire consequences to those engaged in mobile phone businesses if they did not wind up their business.

"We have credible information that all the attacks on land owners of cell phone towers and SIM card sellers have been carried out by LeT outfit," a top intelligence officer told IANS.

Meanwhile, Lt. General Subrata Saha, who heads the army's Srinagar based 15th Corps, told reporters that the army is analyzing the attack as a new threat. “I am sure we will expose this unheard of group. Singling out of the telecom sector in Sopore brings a new focus to the terror in the valley."

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