| Twenty-six soldiers have been killed and about half a dozen wounded when a bus hit a landmine on a key Kashmir highway, security officials say. The leading Pakistan-based rebel group, Hizbul Mujahideen, claimed responsibility for the attack on Sunday, which came a day after Manmohan Singh took over as prime minister of India’s new Congress-led coalition government. Neeraj Sharma, a Border Security Force (BSF) spokesman, told Reuters the bus with BSF personnel caught fire after the explosion near Lowermunda area, 100 km south of Srinagar, Kashmir’s summer capital. The bus was part of a BSF convoy going from Srinagar to Jammu, the state’s winter capital. |