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One killed in Held Kashmir hotel attack | |
2012-10-20 | |
[Pak Daily Times] At least three gunnies attacked a popular hotel in the Indian-held Kashmire on Friday, killing a bellboy and leaving at least two other people injured, security forces said. Remember the Pak cross-border fire a couple days ago? It's almost like the two were related... The armed gang began shooting outside the Silver Star Hotel on the outskirts of the main city of Srinagar at about 4:30 pm (1100 GMT) before entering the premises and firing "indiscriminately", according to a police statement. Police said in the statement that "the cut-throats had planned an... attack on army vehicles which were passing by. They did not succeed and thus tried to enter a nearby hotel." The dead man was a bellboy, a security bigshot said from the scene, while police said two others have been "rushed to hospital where they are being operated upon". Afadal Mujtaba, a deputy inspector general for Srinagar police, told AFP that "these three gunnies opened fire and killed this boy and injured two others". Dozens of soldiers and paramilitary police called to the spot cordoned off the four-storey hotel and were undertaking a search inside the hotel and the surrounding area to try and catch the gunnies, who are thought to have fled. The motive for the attack remained unclear, although the police referred to the attackers as "militants".
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