PAKISTAN: A BOMB EXPLODES IN A PASSENGER BUS IN PAKISTAN-RULED KASHMIR KILLING AT LEAST SEVEN PEOPLE

Record ID: 358405

  • Title: PAKISTAN: A BOMB EXPLODES IN A PASSENGER BUS IN PAKISTAN-RULED KASHMIR KILLING AT LEAST SEVEN PEOPLE
  • Date: 28th July 1999
  • Summary: MUZAFFARABAD, PAKISTAN-RULED PART OF KASHMIR (JULY 27, 1999) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. SLV EXTERIOR OF A HOSPITAL 0.05 2. SV INJURED MAN BEING BROUGHT IN ON A STRETCHER 0.16 3. CU OF INJURED MAN 0.20 4. SV ANOTHER INJURED MAN 0.26 5. MCU (Urdu) FIRST INJURED MAN SAYING: "There was a bomb explosion. I don't know what happened aft
  • Embargoed: 12th August 1999 13:00
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  • Location: MUZAFFARABAD, PAKISTAN-RULED PART OF KASHMIR
  • Country: Pakistan
  • Reuters ID: LVA5PADFJ9OLBBLKGPFK17TKGF9C
  • Story Text: At least seven people have been killed and 40 wounded
    when a powerful bomb exploded in a passenger bus in
    Pakistan-ruled part Kashmir.

    The blast happened on Tuesday (July 27) at Sehnsa in
    the Kotli district, which borders Indian-ruled Kashmir.

    Police said the bus was headed for Kotli town from
    Rawalpindi in Pakistan's Punjab province.The injured were
    admitted to a government hospital.

    "There was a bomb explosion.I don't know what happened
    after that.There was a loud noise.The bus was going to
    Kotli," said a survivor.

    "All of a sudden a bomb exploded and the bus caught
    fire.The bus was full of local passengers.As soon as there
    was an explosion, the bus caught fire and it stopped," said
    another injured passenger.

    A senior police official said India was thought to be
    involved in the bomb blast.Both sides often accuse each other
    of sponsoring terrorist acts on the side of the other.

    Earlier this month, India wound down a two-month
    military offensive to flush out hundreds of guerrillas who had
    occupied heights overlooking the strategic Srinagar-Leh
    highway in Indian-held Kashmir.

    Pakistan had asked the guerrillas to withdraw from the
    Kargil heights after bloody fighting which brought the two
    arch-rivals close to the brink of a full-scale war.

    The two countries have fought two of their three wars
    over Kashmir.

    India said the infiltrators were a mix of Pakistani army
    regulars and Islamic militants.Pakistan maintained that the
    guerrillas were freedom fighters against Indian rule in Jammu
    and Kashmir.

    India rules two-thirds of Kashmir and Pakistan the rest.


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