A car bomb blew up an army jeep on Wednesday, killing five soldiers and at least one civilian and injuring 20 people near a school in an elite neighborhood of Indian-held Kashmir’s capital, police said. Police said a suicide bomber also was killed in the blast when he rammed the car into the jeep - which would bring the death toll to seven - but a militant group that claimed responsibility for the blast said it was triggered in a parked car by remote-control. India’s government called the attack an effort to derail peace talks between India and Pakistan, but promised to push ahead with the dialogue with its neighbour and rival of six decades. No children were hurt inside the Burn Hall School in Srinagar, senior police officer Haseeb Ahmed said. But the blast knocked down part of a wall and shattered windows in a neighborhood filled with homes of top government officials, Ahmed said. The injured - both civilians and security officials - were taken to a hospital, where some of them were in serious condition, he said. A caller identifying himself as Salim Hashmi, spokesman for Kashmir’s largest militant group Hizbul Mujahideen, claimed responsibility for the blast in a call to a local news agency, Current News Service. He denied there was a suicide bomber.
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