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India: Separatists blamed for railway bomb attack
[ADN Kronos] Separatists have been blamed for a bomb attack that destroyed three metres of a major railway line in Indian-administered Kashmir's Pulwama district late Thursday. Police said no trains were running when militants exploded an improvised explosive device on the tracks near Pulwama.No casualties were reported and services between Srinagar and Qazigund have been interrupted. It is the first time militants have targeted the railway in the valley since the opening of a train service in the valley last year. "Around 10 p.m last evening (Thursday), militants carried out an IED blast blowing off two to three metres of the rail track at Gulbugh village near Kakapora town of Pulwama district," a senior police officer told Indian daily, The Times of India. Hundreds of officeworkers, businessmen and students use the train service in south Kashmir's Anantnag and Pulwama districts every morning to reach offices in Srinagar and other local districts. While violence has declined in Kashmir in recent years, hundreds of thousands of Indian troops remain in Indian-administered Kashmir in a bid to counter a long-running insurgency in the disputed territory. Indian security forces have been particularly concerned about a growing militants seeking to enter the region from Pakistan. The area is home to camps of Sunni militant groups fighting in Indian-administered Kashmir. Posted by: Fred 2010-04-03 |
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