11-14-2006, 11:01 PM
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Khursheed Wani | Srinagar
Two deafening blasts in Srinagar and Baramulla sent grim reminders of terrorism to foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan who began a two-day talks in New Delhi on Tuesday to find ways of establishing peace and eradication of terrorism in the region.
<b>At least 19 civilians and 13 security personnel including an Army Major were injured in the blasts. Hizbul Mujahideen, the indigenous militant outfit that is fighting the security forces for the past 17 years, claimed responsibility for the attacks.</b>
The deadlier blast took place in the summer capital Srinagar's bustling Karan Nagar locality at around 4 pm. Sources said militants had parked an explosive laden car outside a well-guarded CRPF formation and triggered the Improvised Explosive Device (IED) fitted inside it. The CRPF formation was the target of the attack.
Sources said that militants first lobbed a grenade and then triggered the IED after few seconds.<b> As many as 22 persons including four CRPF and five local police personnel got injured in the blast.</b> The blast's sound could be heard in a five- kilometre periphery and it created panic among people in major parts of the city. Security forces immediately cordoned off the area to track down perpetrators of the crime. However, no arrests were made.
Earlier in the day, a separate blast at Khanpora locality of North Kashmir's Baramulla district left four soldiers including a Major and six civilians injured.
<b>Sources said that militants triggered an IED at 1.45 pm when an Army convoy was on its way to Uri from Baramulla. Three Army vehicles damaged under the impact of the blast and four soldiers including an officer Major Amit Arvedi got injured.</b>
A defence spokesperson denied that the blast was caused due to triggering of an IED. "It was a grenade attack on the convoy in which three soldiers injuried," he said. A caller identifying himself as the spokesperson of Hizbul Mujahideen claimed that his outfit carried out the blast.
Meanwhile, another person succumbed to injuries in a Srinagar hospital taking the death toll of Friday's mosque blast at Tahab village of southern Pulwama district to seven.
The alleged grenade thrower who was handed over to the Army by the local people has been remanded in police custody for a week.
Meanwhile, unknown gunmen shot dead a trader at Soofshali in Kokernag belt of southern Anantnag district late on Monday night.
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Moron Singh will ignore these attacks, like he did with Mumbai blast and will continue talks with his friends from his homeland Pakistan.
Good going, Moron Singh's homeland Zindabad.
Pioneer.com
Khursheed Wani | Srinagar
Two deafening blasts in Srinagar and Baramulla sent grim reminders of terrorism to foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan who began a two-day talks in New Delhi on Tuesday to find ways of establishing peace and eradication of terrorism in the region.
<b>At least 19 civilians and 13 security personnel including an Army Major were injured in the blasts. Hizbul Mujahideen, the indigenous militant outfit that is fighting the security forces for the past 17 years, claimed responsibility for the attacks.</b>
The deadlier blast took place in the summer capital Srinagar's bustling Karan Nagar locality at around 4 pm. Sources said militants had parked an explosive laden car outside a well-guarded CRPF formation and triggered the Improvised Explosive Device (IED) fitted inside it. The CRPF formation was the target of the attack.
Sources said that militants first lobbed a grenade and then triggered the IED after few seconds.<b> As many as 22 persons including four CRPF and five local police personnel got injured in the blast.</b> The blast's sound could be heard in a five- kilometre periphery and it created panic among people in major parts of the city. Security forces immediately cordoned off the area to track down perpetrators of the crime. However, no arrests were made.
Earlier in the day, a separate blast at Khanpora locality of North Kashmir's Baramulla district left four soldiers including a Major and six civilians injured.
<b>Sources said that militants triggered an IED at 1.45 pm when an Army convoy was on its way to Uri from Baramulla. Three Army vehicles damaged under the impact of the blast and four soldiers including an officer Major Amit Arvedi got injured.</b>
A defence spokesperson denied that the blast was caused due to triggering of an IED. "It was a grenade attack on the convoy in which three soldiers injuried," he said. A caller identifying himself as the spokesperson of Hizbul Mujahideen claimed that his outfit carried out the blast.
Meanwhile, another person succumbed to injuries in a Srinagar hospital taking the death toll of Friday's mosque blast at Tahab village of southern Pulwama district to seven.
The alleged grenade thrower who was handed over to the Army by the local people has been remanded in police custody for a week.
Meanwhile, unknown gunmen shot dead a trader at Soofshali in Kokernag belt of southern Anantnag district late on Monday night.
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Moron Singh will ignore these attacks, like he did with Mumbai blast and will continue talks with his friends from his homeland Pakistan.
Good going, Moron Singh's homeland Zindabad.