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Car bomb wounds four in Indian Kashmir's main city SRINAGAR, India, March 18 (Reuters) - Three Indian soldiers and a pedestrian were wounded on Saturday when suspected separatist guerrillas set off a car bomb in Kashmir's main city, the army and witnesses said. They said the bomb went off as an army convoy was passing near Rawalpora, a residential area in Srinagar, the summer capital of India's Jammu and Kashmir state. "The deafening explosion shook the buildings," Mehraj-u-Din, a resident, told Reuters. No militant group claimed responsibility for the explosion, which also damaged an army bus. Tens of thousands of people have been killed since a separatist revolt broke out in 1989 in Jammu and Kashmir, mainly Hindu India's only Muslim-majority state. Separatist violence in Kashmir is not as bad as it used to be but continues despite a slow peace process between India and Pakistan, who claim the Himalayan region in full and have fought two wars over it. Late on Friday, soldiers shot dead four militants in a fierce gun battle in Rajouri district, southwest of Srinagar, police said. |
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