zondag, september 21, 2003
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foto Channi Anand
A time bomb concealed in a video recorder exploded in a crowded market in Indian Kashmir Sunday, killing at least three people and wounding 28 others, police said. The bomb exploded in the town of Rajouri, near the highly militarized frontier which divides Kashmir into Indian and Pakistani sectors. Seven of the wounded were badly hurt and several shops in the crowded market were badly damaged. Police said the explosives-filled video recorder was placed near a shoe shop and set off by a timer device. No militant group among the many which operate in Kashmir claimed responsibility for the Rajouri attack.
Police say more than 200 people, most of them rebels, have been killed in the Himalayan region in September while the rebels have said they have stepped up infiltration from Muslim Pakistan into Indian Kashmir. Infiltration drops off in winter because the mountain passes along the frontier are snow-bound. But before then, in the autumn, the crossings usually increase and so does the violence.
The surge in violence has cast a shadow on tentative peace steps between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan, who were near the brink of a war over the territory last year. Besides the bomb attack, police said seven suspected militants and four civilians were killed in separate gunbattles. Also, police said three civilians were killed and five wounded when Pakistani troops fired artillery shells overnight across the frontier.
Bron: Reuters.
foto Channi Anand
A time bomb concealed in a video recorder exploded in a crowded market in Indian Kashmir Sunday, killing at least three people and wounding 28 others, police said. The bomb exploded in the town of Rajouri, near the highly militarized frontier which divides Kashmir into Indian and Pakistani sectors. Seven of the wounded were badly hurt and several shops in the crowded market were badly damaged. Police said the explosives-filled video recorder was placed near a shoe shop and set off by a timer device. No militant group among the many which operate in Kashmir claimed responsibility for the Rajouri attack.
Police say more than 200 people, most of them rebels, have been killed in the Himalayan region in September while the rebels have said they have stepped up infiltration from Muslim Pakistan into Indian Kashmir. Infiltration drops off in winter because the mountain passes along the frontier are snow-bound. But before then, in the autumn, the crossings usually increase and so does the violence.
The surge in violence has cast a shadow on tentative peace steps between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan, who were near the brink of a war over the territory last year. Besides the bomb attack, police said seven suspected militants and four civilians were killed in separate gunbattles. Also, police said three civilians were killed and five wounded when Pakistani troops fired artillery shells overnight across the frontier.
Bron: Reuters.
# posted by Jan-Edward : 21:47
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