India - Siege Of Shrine Ends

(28 Mar 1996) T/I: 10:24:47


Militants in Srinigar who had occupied one of Islam's holiest shrines, the Hazratbal mosque, had all given themselves up by Wednesday (27/3).
The three-day standoff between about 20 heavily-armed militants and Kashmiri police began on Sunday. The militants belonged to a splinter group of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF).

SHOWS:

SRINAGAR, INDIA, 27/3
Dome and minarets of Hazratbal Mosque through trees.
Armed security men.
Security keeping spectators at distance.
Armed security men at entrance as visitors are frisked.
Security men behind sandbags.
Visitors being frisked at entrance.
CU security man with helmet.
CU weapon.
Name of Prophet Mohammed in Arabic script on iron gate of entrance, pull out to show security.
Interior shrine.
Security in hallways.
Security man on walkway.
Men removing carpet.
Display of weapons from siege.
VS of weapons and police arranging.
CU weapons with bullets used to spell out JKAP (for Jammu and Kashmir Armed Police).
Spectators.
Police officer with aides.
Bullet holes in walls and windows.
Women at shrine.
Dome of shrine.
GV shrine.

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