INDIA: SUSPECTED MUSLIM REBELS ATTACKED A CROWDED RAILWAY STATION IN INDIAN KASHMIR

Record ID: 355507

  • Title: INDIA: SUSPECTED MUSLIM REBELS ATTACKED A CROWDED RAILWAY STATION IN INDIAN KASHMIR
  • Date: 2nd January 2004
  • Summary: (EU) JAMMU, KASHMIR, INDIA (JANUARY 2, 2004) (REUTERS -- ACCESS ALL) 1. THE RAILWAY STATION UNDER REBEL ATTACK 0.02 2. ARMY INSIDE THE RAILWAY STATION 0.06 3. SOLDIERS TAKING COVER BEHIND A PILLAR (GUNSHOTS IN THE BACKGROUND) 0.43 4. PEOPLE SITTING IN A PASSAGEWAY TAKING COVER 0.48 5. MCU (Hindi) AN EYEWITNESS, SAYING: "Sudd
  • Embargoed: 17th January 2004 12:00
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  • Location: JAMMU, JAMMU AND KASHMIR, INDIA
  • Country: India
  • Reuters ID: LVAD1IM90WAC1LTSP95WF2RGAIC2
  • Story Text: Suspected Muslim rebels attacked a crowded railway
    station in Indian Kashmir on Friday.



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    Suspected Muslim rebels attacked a crowded railway
    station in Indian Kashmir on Friday, killing two security
    men and and wounding at least six people, police said.

    The attack came on the eve of a rare trip to Pakistan
    by Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, who is due
    to attend a January 4-6 South Asian summit there. The
    nuclear-armed rivals have fought two of their three wars
    over Kashmir.

    "Suddenly there was firing, we ran for cover, we rushed
    to the toilet for cover." One witness told Reuters.

    Hundreds of passengers were in the Jammu station at the
    time of the evening attack.

    Police said their main priority was to evacuate the
    station, as they surrounded it.

    It was the latest of almost daily attacks by separatist
    rebels who have been fighting Indian rule in the
    Muslim-majority state since 1989 in a rebellion that has
    killed more than 40,000 people.

    Indian accuses Muslim Pakistan of backing the rebels.

    Pakistan denies it foments violence and has repeatedly
    called for talks to resolve the dispute.

    But India has ruled out bilateral talks, saying
    Pakistan must stop supporting the guerrillas.

    Ties between the South Asian rivals, who nearly went to
    war over Kashmir in 2002, have warmed in recent months and
    they have agreed to a truce in the Himalayan region. But
    the rebels have ignored the ceasefire.

    India, which holds 45 percent of the region of
    snow-capped mountains and icy blue lakes, considers it an
    integral part of the country.

    Pakistan, which controls a third of Kashmir, had long
    demanded implementation of a 1948 U.N. resolution for a
    plebiscite to determine the wishes of the people, although
    its leader recently offered to set aside that demand.



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