Six killed in Kashmir

Published April 26, 2006

SRINAGAR, April 25: Six people were killed on Tuesday in separate shooting incidents in occupied Kashmir while 28 people, including eight children, were hurt in a landmine explosion and a grenade attack, police said.

Eight people were injured on Tuesday when their jeep ran over a landmine in north Kashmir, police said.

“The jeep was carrying civilian passengers when it hit a buried landmine in the Lolab area” of northern Kupwara district of Kashmir, the spokesman said.—AFP

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