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		</div><p>Government forces killed five suspected rebels, including a teenager, in gun fights in Indian-controlled Kashmir, police said on Sunday.</p>
<p>The back-to-back clashes began late on Saturday after troops cordoned off two villages in southern Kashmir’s Shopian and Bijbehara areas on intelligence that anti-India militants were hiding there, police said.</p>
<p>Three militants were killed and two soldiers wounded in Shopian, Inspector General Vijay Kumar told reporters, and said troops recovered a rifle and a pistol from the site.</p>
<p>One of the dead militants was a teenage boy who, according to officials, had joined rebel ranks few days earlier.</p>
<p>Mr Kumar said several attempts were made to seek the trapped militants’ surrender but they refused.</p>
<p>Indian forces killed two more militants in the second clash in Bijbehara, he said.</p>
<p>At least 15 militants, a policeman and an army soldier have been killed so far this month.</p>
<p>In a surprising decision last month, India and Pakistan agreed to reaffirm their 2003 ceasefire accord along the de facto frontier dividing Kashmir between the two sides.</p>
<p>However, a crackdown by Indian forces and attacks by rebels have continued inside the Indian-held portion.</p>
<p>Both countries claim the divided territory in its entirety.</p>
<p>Many Muslim Kashmiris support the rebel goal that the territory be united either under Pakistani rule or as an independent country.</p>
<p>Tens of thousands of civilians, rebels and government forces have been killed in the conflict.</p>
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