From correspondents in Jammu and Kashmir, India, 02:03 AM IST
A tourist was killed and five other people were injured when separatist militants lobbed a grenade in Gulmarg town of north Kashmir Sunday afternoon, officials here said.
The militants lobbed the grenade at the telephone exchange where a paramilitary guard was posted. The grenade missed the target and exploded in the foreground, injuring five residents of the town and the tourist, identified as Ashok Kumar from Uttar Pradesh, the officials said quoting the police in Gulmarg.
The injured were rushed to hospital, where Kumar died of his injuries, they said.
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Terrorism persists in J&K, and reports suggest suggest it appaears to have been intensified. Deaths and wounding of innocent people incldg.tourists are correspondingly increasing due to ineptitude to hound out terrorists or understand their methods in their subtle detail. Decade after decade, terrorism is going on, but absolutely no changes in the methods appear to have been made and naturally there is no change either in the trend of death and casualty count. Easy will be to separte J&K and hand it over to the Islamist Jihadists both local and Pakistani. But a new problem of Muslim terrorism and separatism will be intensified in the rest of the country on exaggerated, specious grounds of majority discrimination against Muslims.MORAL IS, WE MUST STRENGTHEN OUR POLICE AND MILITARY WITH THE VERY BEST OF EQUIPMENT AND TECHNOLOGY TO ROOT OUT THESE ANTINATIONAL FORCES. Tendency to equate such demand as inspired by BJP must be fought since millions of lovers of India do NOT sympathise with many ideas of BJP.
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