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Clashes mar Indian Kashmir voting
AFP - 1 hour 45 minutes ago
SOPORE, India (AFP) - - Police used tear gas and batons to disperse hundreds of anti-election demonstrators in Indian Kashmir on Sunday during the fourth phase of state elections.
The police action left 10 people injured in Sopore town, 50 kilometres (30 miles) north of summer capital Srinagar, after hundreds of residents gathered to protest against the vote.
Four photojournalists, including one from AFP, were hurt in the violence.
Separatist politicians and rebels have called for a boycott of the polls, arguing elections strengthen New Delhi's hold over the region. However, the first three rounds of voting saw more than 60 percent turnout.
Indian Kashmir was put under federal rule in July following the collapse of the state government over a land dispute that triggered a series of major anti-India demonstrations.
In Baramulla town on Sunday hundreds of troops patrolled the almost empty streets.
"For the first two hours no one has come to vote," said election official Abdul Rashid at one of the polling stations in the town, where troops killed two protesters during pro-independence demonstrations last month.
In remote villages, however, residents queued outside voting stations despite freezing winter temperatures.
Indian authorities stagger the polls in order to move troops around to provide security, with voting scheduled to end on December 24.
For the first time in nearly 20 years, there has been little election-related violence after guerrillas vowed not to threaten voters.
The nearly 20-year-old Muslim insurgency in Kashmir has left nearly 50,000 people dead according to the official count, and thousands more according to separatists and human rights groups.
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