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Terror Networks
Gunnies shoot up Hindu temple in Kashmir
2002-03-30
  • Islamic Front gunnies mounted a suicide attack on the Raghunath temple, killing seven people, three of them policemen, in the first-ever strike on a Hindu place of worship in the past 13 years of terrorism in Kashmir. Both the militants involved in the attack were killed. It was the first time a militant group claimed responsibility for a 'communal' strike. A spokesman of the group called mediapersons and said this was the beginning of a series of attacks planned to avenge the "harassment of Muslims in India".

    Divisional Commissioner, Jammu, Anil Goswami said policemen, and not the temple, were targets of the attack. The suicide attack began at 10.20 a.m. from Raghunath Bazar, where militants threw grenades and fired while moving towards the temple, a landmark in Jammu city. One terrorist shot dead two Special Security Bureau (SSB) and a Jammu and Kashmir police personnel before he entered the complex. The security personnel guarding the temple complex could not close the temple gates in time to prevent him from entering the temple.

    The terrorist entered the temple complex and fired. Ratna Devi of Gwalior, who was with her son Gourav, was the first victim of the shootout in the temple complex. He then tried to enter the Guru Treta Dev temple within the complex. On finding himself surrounded, the terrorist blew himself up, shattering the glass wall of the temple.
    Who's next? Buddhist or Jains? Or do they still have some Christians left?
    • Posted by:Fred Pruitt

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