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| India-Pakistan |
| Explosion Kills Tourists |
| 2007-07-30 |
| At least six people, four of them Gujarati tourists, were killed and 21 others wounded yesterday in a powerful explosion outside the Shalimar Garden on the outskirts of Srinagar, the summer capital of the Himalayan state of Jammu and Kashmir. The dead included two women tourists and two local bystanders, also women. The group of Muslim tourists from Gujarat was on a pleasure trip to Kashmir. Yesterday afternoon the tourists were visiting the famed Shalimar Garden when there was an explosion inside their bus. S.M. Sahai, Kashmir’s inspector general of police, said the police were still trying to ascertain the cause of the explosion. A police officer said police were not sure if it was a grenade attack by militants or if a faulty air-conditioner had exploded inside the bus. “We haven’t yet ruled out a militant hand in the explosion.” The red bus was littered with blood soaked footwear and clothes. Some of its windows had been blown out. Dazed passengers walked around sobbing. No militant group has claimed responsibility for the explosion. The injured tourists were taken to Soura Medical Institute and the SMHS hospital here. “We were sitting inside the bus when we heard a massive bang and then hell broke loose inside as everyone tried to jump out. I saw bleeding fellow tourists crying for help. There was absolute confusion inside,” said Noor-ud-Din a tourist from Gujarat. |
| Posted by:Fred |