Bomb blast in Kashmir

Eighteen people were killed and 66 others injured on Saturday in Kashmir, which included an explosion in the heart of Srinagar, the police said. Two people were killed and 35 injured in a blast on a main Srinagar road used by government officials, including Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed, whose residence is 500 meters away, the police said.
In Pics: Paramilitary troopers remove a damaged rickshaw from a blast site after a bomb went off on the main Srinagar road used by senior government officials on 03 July 2004. One person was killed and 24 injured in the latest separatist-linked violence in Kashmir.
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