- Title: INDIA: GRENADE ATTACK ON MOSLEM SHRINE INJURES 31 PEOPLE
- Date: 27th February 1997
- Summary: BAHUGUND, KASHMIR STATE, INDIA (FEBRUARY 27, 1997) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. LV EXTERIOR OF HOSPITAL 0.07 2. GV INTERIOR OF HOSPITAL 0.12 3. SV/CU INJURED IN HOSPITAL (8 SHOTS) 0.55 4. SV SECURITY OUTSIDE HOSPITAL 1.00 5. SCU DOCTOR OWANAN SAYING WE HAVE RECEIVED ABOUT 15 PATIENTS WHO SUSTAINED INJURIES IN A BOMB BLAST
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- Location: BAHUGUND, KASHMIR STATE; INDIA
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- Country: India
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- Story Text: INTRO: One person has died and dozens of Moslem worshippers, many of them children, were injured in a grenade attack on a shrine in India's Kashmir region, police said.
At least 31 people sustained injuries when the attackers hurled a grenade onto the crowded lawns of a shrine dedicated to Moslem saint Syed Saimanani in Bahugund village on Wednesday (February 26), police said.
Nearly a dozen children were injured in the blast, and five of the total number injured, including two children, were in a critical condition, a police spokesman said.
The attack occurred as hundreds of Moslem devotees gathered for an annual festival.
Doctor Owanan said the hospital where he worked had received 15 injured, among them four or five were operated on and one patient had died.
Bahugund is some 60 km (35 miles) south of Srinagar, summer capital of the northern Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.
More than a dozen rebel groups are fighting for independence or a merger with neighbouring Pakistan in the state, mainly Hindu India's only Moslem-majority province.
Police and hospitals say more than 20,000 people have been killed since the separatist rebellion broke out in 1990.
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