Kashmir blasts injure at least 31 people

Kashmir blasts injure at least 31 people

INDIA: At least 31 people, mostly civilians, were injured in Indian-administered Kashmir Saturday in two separate blasts aimed at the restive region's security forces, police and witnesses said.

Police said seven Central Reserve Police Force personnel and 12 civilians were hurt when suspected Islamic militants detonated a car bomb on the Anantnag-Pahalgam road as a paramilitary patrol was passing.

The attack, which occurred some 60 kilometers (37 miles) south of Indian Kashmir's summer capital Srinagar, was later claimed in calls to local newspaper offices by Kashmir's dominant rebel group Hizbul Mujahedin.

In Srinagar's busy Dalgate commercial area, 12 civilians were wounded when a grenade lobbed by rebels at a security force vehicle missed its target and fell among shoppers, police and witnesses said. No one immediately claimed responsibility. -- AFP