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Six arrested over car bombs SRINAGAR, India, Aug 6 (AFP) - Police in Indian Kashmir said Friday they had arrested six men suspected of being Islamic militants involved in three car-bomb blasts that killed 16 people and injured 75. The powerful blasts that have cast a shadow over the ongoing peace process between India and Pakistan occurred in June and July in the disputed region's main city of Srinagar which has a population of over one million people. "We have arrested six people involved in three major car-bomb blasts in Srinagar," the region's police chief Gopal Sharma told a news conference. Sharma said four men were arrested Friday in different parts of Indian Kashmir. Two others were arrested earlier in the week. The police chief alleged the suspects belonged to the militant group Hizbul Mujahedin which is fighting to make Indian Kashmir part of Pakistan. Hizbul Mujahedin is based in the Pakistan-administered zone of the divided Himalayan region. "We are conducting raids to arrest two more militants who have been masterminding these attacks," Sharma said, adding one of them is a Pakistani. India accuses Pakistan of fomenting the 16-year revolt in the Indian zone of Kashmir by training and arming militants. Pakistan denies the charge. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh recently warned Pakistan that continued militant attacks could harm the peace process formally launched in January 2004 aimed at resolving the dispute over Kashmir, spark of two of their three wars. |
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