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{{Infobox civilian attack<br />
|title = December 2014 Kashmir attacks<br />
|partof = [[Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir]]<br />
|location = [[Jammu and Kashmir (state)|Jammu and Kashmir]], India<br />
|date = 5 December 2014<br />
|fatalities = 23 including 6 perpetrators<br />
|injuries =10+<br />
|perps = [[Lashkar-e-Taiba]]<br />
|weapons = AK-47, shotguns, grenades<br />
|motive = To disrupt [[2014 Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election|ongoing assembly elections]]<br />
}}<br />
{{Terrorist attacks in India (since 2001)}}<br />
On 5 December 2014, there were four different terror attacks at multiple places in the [[Kashmir Valley]] of the state of [[Jammu and Kashmir (state)|Jammu and Kashmir]] in India.<br />
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==Background ==<br />
[[2014 Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election|Elections to the state assembly of Jammu and Kashmir]] were going on and heavy voter turnout was recorded in the first two phases. The third phase of the election were due to be held in few days. Indian Prime Minister [[Narendra Modi]] was due to hold two election rally, in [[Srinagar]] and [[Anantnag]]. The attacks were carried out just three days before the rally to disrupt the election.<ref name="The Hindu14">{{cite web|title=Multiple attacks rock Kashmir Valley |website=The Hindu: Mobile Edition |date=5 December 2014 |url=http://m.thehindu.com/news/national/militants-attack-army-camp-at-mohra-near-uri-border-town-in-kashmir/article6664357.ece/ |accessdate=24 December 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20141224205414/http://m.thehindu.com/news/national/militants-attack-army-camp-at-mohra-near-uri-border-town-in-kashmir/article6664357.ece/ |archivedate=24 December 2014 }}</ref><ref name="toi14">{{cite web|title=Militants rock Kashmir valley with terror attacks, 21 killed - TOI Mobile|website=The Times of India Mobile Site|date=5 December 2014|url=http://m.timesofindia.com/india/Militants-rock-Kashmir-valley-with-terror-attacks-21-killed/articleshow/45389057.cms|accessdate=24 December 2014}}</ref><ref name="Bukhari 2014">{{cite web|last=Bukhari|first=Fayaz|title=Eleven soldiers, police dead in attack on camp in Kashmir|website=Reuters.com|date=5 December 2014|url=http://in.mobile.reuters.com/article/idINKCN0JJ0CK20141205?irpc=932|accessdate=24 December 2014}}</ref><ref name="Economic Times 2014">{{cite web|title=US condemns terrorist attacks in Kashmir|website=The Economic Times|date=6 December 2014|url=http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2014-12-06/news/56779869_1_kashmir-valley-tral-srinagar-and-shopian|accessdate=24 December 2014}}</ref><br />
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==Attacks==<br />
Six terrorists attacked the [[Indian Army]] camp at Mohura in [[Uri, Jammu and Kashmir|Uri]]. They attacked at 3:10 am [[Indian Standard Time|IST]] on 5 December 2014. Soon the army retaliated. Eight army soldiers, including a Lieutenant-Colonel Sankalp Kumar of Punjab Regiment, three Jammu and Kashmir policemen and all the six terrorists were killed totalling to 17 people.<ref name="The Hindu14"/><ref name="toi14"/><ref name="Bukhari 2014"/><ref name="Economic Times 2014"/><br />
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Two militants attacked state police at a temporary checkpoint in Ahmadnagar near Srinagar around 1:15 pm IST. They were killed and one of them was identified as Qari Asrar, the district commander of the [[Lashkar-e-Taiba]].<ref name="The Hindu14"/><ref name="toi14"/><ref name="Bukhari 2014"/><br />
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Two [[grenade]] attacks, in [[Shopian district]] around 1.30 pm IST and the other in [[Tral]] of [[Pulwama district]] around 2 pm, were also carried out. There was no fatalities in Shopian whereas in Tral two civilians died and nine injured when the grenade blasted at the bus stand.<ref name="The Hindu14"/><ref name="toi14"/><ref name="Bukhari 2014"/><ref name="Economic Times 2014"/><br />
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