| A remote-controlled bomb hidden in a motorcycle exploded as an Indian army convoy passed by on Saturday, killing two soldiers and injuring 40 people in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir, police said. The motorcycle was parked on a bridge near the town of Manasbal, about 35 kilometres northwest of Srinagar, police officer Suhail Ahmed said. The blast blew one of the army trucks off the bridge, he said. âThe truck caught fire and plunged into the river like a ball of fire,â he said. The attack wounded 38 soldiers, seven of them seriously, he added. Two civilian passers-by were also injured. A local police officer said two Hizbul Mujahedin, in a claim of responsibility made to Kashmiri media, boasted it had killed 10 troops and wounded 40 more. In a separate gunbattle on Saturday, Indian soldiers killed one suspected guerrilla in Dangerpora, a village about 65 kilometres south of Srinagar. Police said the slain militant belonged to Lashkar-e-Taiba. In nearby Nawkar forests, one captured militant was killed in crossfire between suspected militants and soldiers, police said. |