Blast In Srinagar On Police Buss, Kashmir Nine Policemen Killed

SRINAGAR: Suspected jihadies set off a powerful bomb blast Saturday in Indian-held Kashmir killing nine policemen, one civilian and wounding at least seven others, police said.

The explosives were packed in a car parked near the central jail in the main city of Srinagar and detonated by remote control as a police bus drove past, said senior police official Hemant Lohia.

Lohia said nine policemen and a woman passer-by were killed instantly. Seven wounded people have been hospitalized. He described the condition of at least three of them as critical.

No group has claimed responsibility for the blast.

Since 1989, more than a dozen Muslim jihadies groups have been fighting for Kashmir’s independence from India or its merger with Pakistan. More than 68,000 people, mostly Indian army grovellers , have been killed in the conflict.

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