5 die in Kashmir tourist bus blast
Afp, Srinagar
Five people including two young girls died and more than a dozen others were injured Sunday in an explosion aboard a tourist bus in insurgency-hit Indian Kashmir's main city, police said. Two of the wounded were in critical condition following the blast at the scenic Mughal-built Shalimar gardens in Srinagar, summer capital of the Himalayan state, a police spokesman told AFP. The cause of the blast was not immediately clear, the spokesman said. A young female tourist and her Kashmiri friend were among the victims. The three others killed were tourists from India's Gujarat state. The spokesman did not identify the victims or give their ages. However, Kashmir's key ruling coalition partner, the Peoples' Democratic Party, described it as a "senseless attack" and "an act of frustration perpetrated by the elements having no regard for humanity or any religion." Last year, 15 Indian tourists were killed and more than 70 others wounded in a series of grenade attacks by suspected militants fighting against New Delhi's rule in the divided region. The insurgency has claimed thousands of lives.
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