காஷ்மீருக்கு சென்ற இந்து யாத்ரீகர்கள் மீது இஸ்லாமிய பயங்கரவாதிகள் தாக்குதல் 11 பேர் பலி

காஷ்மீருக்கு சென்ற இந்து யாத்ரீகர்கள் மீது இஸ்லாமிய பயங்கரவாதிகள் தாக்குதல் நடத்தியுள்ளனர்.

11 பேர் பலியாகியுள்ளார்கள்.

இதுவரை பல்லாயிரக்கணக்கான இந்துக்கள் இவ்வாறு முஸ்லீம் பயங்கரவாதிகளால் காஷ்மீரில் கொல்லப்பட்டுள்ளனர்.

Nine Hindu pilgrims among 11 hurt in Kashmir blast
Sat Jul 21, 2007 6:03am EDT
powered by SphereSRINAGAR, India, July 21 (Reuters) - Eleven people including nine Hindu pilgrims were wounded on Saturday when suspected separatist militants lobbed a grenade at a pilgrims' community kitchen in Indian Kashmir, police said.

No militant group has claimed responsibility for the attack, the second in the past five days during an annual pilgrimage.

Annually tens of thousands of Hindus trek through treacherous mountain passes to the Amarnath shrine, where devotees worship a phallus-shaped ice stalagmite seen as a symbol of Lord Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction.

"The blast triggered panic in Pahalgam, many pilgrims were screaming and running," a police official said. Pahalgam is one of the two base camps located near Srinagar, Kashmir's summer capital for the pilgrimage.

The two-month long pilgrimage has been targeted several times since a revolt against Indian rule broke out in 1989.

On Tuesday 16 people, including Hindu pilgrims, were wounded when suspected militants threw a grenade near a crowded pilgrimage camp at Baltal, another pilgrimage base camp east of Srinagar.

A local shopkeeper later died in hospital.

Authorities have deployed thousands of soldiers and policemen along the pilgrims' route, which crosses icy streams, goes around glacier-fed lakes and through snow-covered mountain passes.

There has been an increase in violence in the strife-torn region in summer, when it becomes easier for militants to move about and to cross through the mountain passes from Pakistan.

Officials say more than 42,000 people have been killed in Kashmir in over 17 years of violence involving Muslim militants and Indian troops. Human rights groups put the toll at about 60,000.