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28 wounded in Kashmir grenade flings |
2005-08-27 |
Some 14 people including four soldiers and a five-old female baby were wounded in a series of attacks waged by armed groups in the town of Sopore in Jammu and Kashmir in northern India on Friday, security sources said. The sources in Srinagar, provincial capital of the violence-infested state, said unknown attacks hurled hand-grenades at a public location in Sopore in the north of Kashmir, wounding some 14 people including four troops and a baby. Separately, gunmen tossed two hand-grenades on a military vehicle of the Indian border forces in the region of Lalbab Sahib in Sopore. The hand-grenade missed the target and blew up on a street wounding seven civilians. Later in the day, a similar incident occured in Iqbal Market wounding four soldiers and two civilians. The main market of the city also witnessed a similar incident that seriously wounded one person. |
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