The head of held Kashmir's main opposition party, Omar Abdullah, and his father Farooq Abdullah survived an assassination attempt on Sunday when rebels exploded a bomb a few steps away from him, police said. One person was killed and six were injured in the blast in the insurgency-racked Himalayan region, "Ha! Y'missed me, bitch!" | two critically, police said. Omar Abdullah leads the pro-India National Conference party and earlier served as India's junior foreign minister. Farooq Abdullah is a former chief minister. "It was a narrow miss for Omar Abdullah," a police officer said. Abdullah and his father had just emerged from their car when there was a deafening explosion, sending people fleeing for cover, said Nazir Ahmed who witnessed the blast. "They were only a few meters away from the site of the explosion," Ahmed said. Security personnel fired into the air to scare away the militants. "The explosion sparked panic everyone ran for cover," said Ahmed. The bomb was detonated as Abdullah arrived to attend a prayer ceremony for former National Conference minister Safdar Ali Baig, gunned down by militants last Thursday. |