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| Grenades wound 16, spread panic |
| 2005-08-26 |
| FIVE grenade blasts have wounded 16 people in Indian-ruled Kashmir, among them four border guards and a five-year-old girl. The explosions went off within three hours in Sopore, 50km north of the summer capital Srinagar, targeting soldiers patrolling on foot and in vehicles, a police spokesman said. "Most of the injured were bystanders," he said. The blasts had sparked panic in Sopore, which was a stronghold of the Muslim guerrilla group Hizbul Mujahedin before Indian troops broke their grip on the town in the mid-1990s, he said. Violence has kept up in Kashmir despite a slow-moving peace process launched by nuclear rivals India and Pakistan in January 2004 to settle their dispute over the Himalayan state, which has triggered two of their three wars. More than 44,000 people have died in the insurgency against Indian rule in Kashmir since 1989, according to official figures. Separatists say the death toll is twice as high. |
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