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| 2005-05-14 | |||
| SRINAGAR, India - Thousands of demonstrators joined grieving relatives carrying coffins Friday to protest against a grenade attack that killed two people and hurt 50 outside a school in revolt-hit Indian Kashmir. Police hurled teargas to quell stone-throwing demonstrators in the busy commercial centre of Lal Chowk in Indian Kashmir's main city, Srinagar, where Thursday's blast occurred. The protest in which demonstrators shouted "We want freedom, long live Islam," came as 10 more people died Friday in fresh violence in the region where Islamic rebels have been fighting a 15-year battle against Indian rule. The victims included a Muslim man and his two children killed when a "gift" bomb exploded in their faces.
The demonstrators also chanted prayers for the Muslim woman and her daughter slain in the attack near the missionary school in Srinagar, the urban hub of the revolt. The attackers hurled the grenade at a security vehicle and missed, and the device exploded outside the school gates, killing the two people and injuring 50, including 20 school children, police said.
"We need to find out who did this," said Imtiaz Ahmed, a relative of Thursday's dead victims, urging an independent probe. "We can't just take the government's word."
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| Posted by:Steve White |
| #1 Five hardcore Hizbul terrorists killed in J & K Srinagar, May. 14 (PTI): Five hardcore Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists, including chief commander operation, and a security jawan were killed in overnight encounters in Jammu and Kashmir, where militants gunned down the brother of a former top Hizbul commander here today, police said. In a major setback to Hizbul Mujahideen, a police spokesman said self-styled Chief Commander operations of the terrorist outfit Ghulam Mohammad Bhat alias Gulfan and his close associate Jamal Din code Saifullah, were killed in a gunfight with security forces at Aghnari-Trigam in Banihal area of Doda district last night. In another encounter in Doda, the spokesman said security forces shot dead two more Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists, one of whom was identified as Irshad Ahmad Tak, during search operations at Posta Mathuri in Prem Nagar area today. Two AK rifles, five magazines and six grenades were recovered from them. Army troops shot dead one more Hizbul terrorist Mohammad Maqbool Khan in an encounter during an ambush at Moshnar, three km South-East of Langate in Kupwara district this morning, the spokesman said adding Khan was active for the past several years. Official sources said a jawan of Rashtriya Rifles, sepoy Preetam Singh, was critically injured in a gunfight with terrorists during search operations at Sonabrari in Anantnag district of South Kashmir in the wee hours today. The jawan was rushed to the Army Base Hospital where he succumbed to injuries, they said. |
| Posted by: john 2005-05-14 16:35 |