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May 31, 2006
India: Islamists Condemn Grenade Attacks Upon Tourists
Dal Lake at Gulmarg is one of the prime tourist sites of Jammu & Kashmir State, Indian Kashmir. News from AKI states that this evening, two coaches carrying tourists back from Lake Gal to Srinigar were subjected to a grenade attack. Most of the tourists were from West Bengal. Women and children were among the injured.
The attack happened at Dal Gate, Srinigar. One of the buses had stopped outside the tourists' hotel when a grenade was thrown through one of the bus windows. A shopkeeper noted that one of the tourists' legs had been blown off. The second incident happened about 100 yards away, minutes after the first blast. A grenade was thrown at a moving coach.
In all 21 people have died.
Islamist groups Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, Lashkar-e-Toiba (Lashkar-e-Tayba) and Al-Mansoorin all condemned the blasts. Hizb-ul-Mujahideen said the attacks were "heinous" and were done to defame "the Kashmiri struggle for freedom".
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at May 31, 2006 6:11 PM
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