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The grenade attack on Tuesday was the second in the past 24 hours in the disputed Himalayan region where separatist violence continues unabated despite peace efforts by India and Pakistan. A police spokesman said the vehicle was parked near a hospital in Bandipora town, 30 miles north of Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir. Elsewhere, four militants and a soldier were killed in two gunbattles in the Kashmir Valley, police said. India and Pakistan last month began a truce along the Kashmir frontier. The ceasefire on the 460-mile Line of Control, which divides the disputed region, has held so far, but rebel groups have said they will not observe the truce. Pakistan denies Indian allegations that it sponsors the 14-year-old revolt which has killed at least 40,000 in Muslim-majority Kashmir. Separatists put the toll at more than 80,000. |
Suspected Muslim rebels have lobbed a grenade at a security patrol vehicle near a hospital in Indian Kashmir, wounding 10 people, police said.