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Woman bomb carrier among six killed in Kashmir unrest
2005-10-14
A Muslim woman died on Thursday when a crude bomb she was carrying exploded in quake-hit Indian Held Kashmir, where five more people died in violence, a police spokesman said. A militant group, Jaish-e-Mohammed, said the woman was a suicide bomber who blew up an army vehicle, killing or injuring six Indian soldiers in the first such attack by the group. “The woman, Hafsa, was from our women’s wing,” a Jaish spokesman told local news agency Current News Service.

However police said the woman was travelling to a major highway connecting Srinagar to the city of Jammu to plant the improvised explosive device when it exploded. “There were no other casualties,” at the site in Awantipora, 30 kilometres south of Srinagar, the spokesman said, adding that no army vehicle was travelling past the site of the blast, 20 metres short of the highway. Militants use women members for transporting arms and explosives in Kashmir, but have never used them as suicide bombers.
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