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Kashmir Korpse Kount Kontinued
 ISLAMABAD - Five schoolgirls were killed when a toy bomb exploded in the grounds of their school in the Neelum Valley in Pakistan-controlled Azad Kashmir on Friday, media reports said. Aaj television channel reported that the school was situated close to the Line of Control, or ceasefire line, that divides the disputed Himalayan state of Kashmir between Pakistan and India.Pakistani troops stationed in the area cordoned off the school after evacuating the students to search for any more such explosive devices. Toy bombs in the shape of butterflies and other playthings and packed with enough explosive to blow off childrens limbs were dropped by the former Soviet Union into Afghanistan during the war against US-backed mujahedin (Islamic warriors) in the 1980s. Posted by: Steve White 2006-11-11 |
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