July 25, 2002	Thursday	Jamadi-ul-Awwal 14,1423

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SRINAGAR, July 24: Six people were killed in separate incidents in held Kashmir on Wednesday and 24 injured in a powerful grenade attack at a bus station on the route of an annual Hindu pilgrimage.

Indian police said unidentified men fired the grenade at a bus carrying guards at a bus stand in the southern town of Anantnag, but it missed its target and fell into a crowd of commuters.

Four policemen and 20 civilians were injured in the explosion, a police spokesman said.

Police revealed that there were no pilgrim buses at the bus stand when it was attacked.

In separate incidents, six people, including three Indian soldiers, two freedom fighters and a teenage girl were killed on Tuesday night and Wednesday, police said.

Mujahideen attacked Border Security Force (BSF) soldiers early on Wednesday, killing a sub-inspector and a constable, a police spokesman said.

BSF reinforcements sealed off the area at the village of Chancer, and launched a manhunt for the attackers.

On Tuesday night, a teenage girl was killed and 27 other people, including six policemen, were injured in a grenade blast in Rajouri town. Police said Mujahideen lobbed a hand grenade at police escorting bank vehicles.

“The grenade exploded with a deafening sound injuring 28 people, including six police,” a police spokesman said. He added that one of the injured, a 15-year-old Sikh girl named Jasmeet Kour, died on way to the hospital.

In another attack, two Mujahideen were killed by Indian troops in the Surankote area of Poonch district.

In another incident, policeman Abdul Hamid of a special police unit was shot dead on Wednesday at point-blank range in Srinagar’s congested Batamaloo area.—AFP