An injured woman is wheeled to a local hospital in Srinagar, India, Friday, July 18, 2008. Suspected Muslim rebels threw a grenade at a crowded bus terminal in Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir on Friday, wounding 35 people, including seven children, police said.
(AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
Attack at India bus terminal injures 35
An injured woman is wheeled to a local hospital in Srinagar, India, Friday, July 18, 2008. Suspected Muslim rebels threw a grenade at a crowded bus terminal in Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir on Friday, wounding 35 people, including seven children, police said.
(AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
SRINAGAR, India—Suspected Muslim rebels threw a grenade at a crowded bus terminal in the Indian portion of Kashmir on Friday, wounding 35 people, including seven children, police said.
The suspected separatists hurled a hand grenade at a police and paramilitary patrol near a busy bus stop in Banihal, roughly 75 miles south of Jammu-Kashmir state's main city, Srinagar, said senior police official Hemant Lohia.
At least five people were wounded critically and were rushed to a hospital. Six police and paramilitary officers were wounded, Lohia said.
The Himalayan region of Kashmir is divided between India and Pakistan and claimed by both in its entirety.
About a dozen rebel groups have been fighting Indian government forces to carve out a separate homeland or to merge Jammu-Kashmir -- India's only Muslim-majority state -- with Pakistan. At least 68,000 people, most of them civilians, have been killed since the start of the rebellion in 1989.
No group claimed responsibility for Friday's attack.
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