Rebel attacks kill 8 in Indian Kashmir

Suspected separatist rebels stormed into a police station in the Indian portion of Kashmir on Thursday and shot and killed at least six people before attacking a nearby army camp, killing two soldiers, police said, according to AP. Security forces were fighting the attackers at the army camp, said Ashok Prasad, a top police officer in Jammu-Kashmir state. Two soldiers died and three others were critically wounded in the second attack, an army officer said. The deputy head of the army's cavalry unit was among the dead and the unit's commanding officer was being treated for injuries, the officer said.