SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Government forces fired at Muslim protesters for a second day Tuesday as they defied a curfew in Indian-administered Kashmir, killing thirteen, police said. Thousands of government forces enforced the indefinite curfew, which was imposed across Muslim-majority areas of the state after a leader of an alliance of nonviolent separatist groups and four others were killed Monday during a protest by tens of thousands of Muslims. They were opposing a blockade by Hindus of a key highway that has stranded hundreds of trucks carrying food and other supplies in and out of the region. The violence is the latest in an escalating crisis that began in June with a dispute over land near a Hindu shrine and has inflamed tensions between Muslims and Hindus in India's only Muslim-majority state.
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