Girl mutilated by rebels in Kashmir

Guerillas chopped off the ears, nose and tongue of a teenage girl they suspected of helping police today, while other violence in Indian-controlled Kashmir left at least eight people dead, police said.

The girl was held captive for eight days before the rebels abandoned her in a field outside her village Manoh, 200 miles southwest of Srinagar, the capital of India’s Jammu-Kashmir state, police said.