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With two more people, including a woman, succumbing to injuries, the death toll in the shoot-out at the Jammu railway station on Tuesday rose to 13, an official spokesman said on Thursday.
Sepoy A S Ravi of Rashtriya Rifles and Harnam Kaur of Chak-Salaria area of Jammu died in the hospital on Wednesday night, he added.
Ten people were killed and 32 others injured, when suspected Lashkar-e-Tayiba militants opened fire at passengers in the railway station on Tuesday night.
One of the attackers was also killed in the retaliatory fire by security forces.
State Governor Girish Chander Saxena and Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah visited the injured in the hospitals on Wednesday and gave cheques of Rs 5000 to each of them.
Meanwhile, indefinite curfew, clamped in Jammu following the killings, continued for the second day on Thursday even as a bandh was being observed, official sources said.
No untoward incident was reported from anywhere till noon during curfew hours, sources said.
They added that police and paramilitary troops were maintaining a vigil in sensitive areas of the city.
Curfew was relaxed for three hours from 1800 hours on Wednesday.
Reports from other districts of Jammu division said that a bandh was being observed in Kathua, Poonch, Reasi and Bishnah to protest the killings.
The reports added that a five-hour relaxation in curfew in Baderwah and Kishtwar towns of Doda district from 5 am on Thursday passed off peacefully.
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