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Sunday, 14 July, 2002, 13:33 GMT 14:33 UK
In pictures: Mourning Kashmir dead
Relatives are mourning their dead after at least 27 Hindu civilians were killed on Saturday in a gun attack on a shanty town near Jammu in Indian-administered Kashmir.

Mourning families sit by coffins holding their relatives' bodies
The victims were killed by attackers disguised as Hindi holy men, who fired weapons and threw grenades (AP)

A young girl weeps as she stands near a victim's coffin
Many people lost several family members...

A woman cries for her dead relatives as she holds on to her baby
...and are stunned by the ferocity of the attack (AP)

Woman cries as she looks at a newspaper picture of her dead son while others look on
This woman (centre) wept as she saw a picture of her dead son in the local newspaper (AP)

Indian police on the streets of Srinigar
India has mounted a massive hunt for the militants

Two woman weep over the open coffin of a family member
...but it is too late for the victims and their grieving families

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