The head of held Kashmir's main opposition party, Omar Abdullah, and his father Farooq Abdullah survived an assassination attempt on Sunday when rebels exploded a bomb a few steps away from him, police said. One person was killed and six were injured in the blast in the insurgency-racked Himalayan region, | "Ha! Y'missed me, bitch!" |
two critically, police said. Omar Abdullah leads the pro-India National Conference party and earlier served as India's junior foreign minister. Farooq Abdullah is a former chief minister. "It was a narrow miss for Omar Abdullah," a police officer said. Abdullah and his father had just emerged from their car when there was a deafening explosion, sending people fleeing for cover, said Nazir Ahmed who witnessed the blast. "They were only a few meters away from the site of the explosion," Ahmed said. Security personnel fired into the air to scare away the militants. "The explosion sparked panic — everyone ran for cover," said Ahmed. The bomb was detonated as Abdullah arrived to attend a prayer ceremony for former National Conference minister Safdar Ali Baig, gunned down by militants last Thursday. |