Blast in mosque wounds 9 people in Indian administered Kashmir

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Blast in mosque wounds 9 people in Indian administered Kashmir

Srinagar, India - Four people with multiple shrapnel wounds were taken to a hospital in Srinagar, police said.

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Published: Thu 13 Aug 2015, 8:19 AM

Last updated: Thu 13 Aug 2015, 10:23 AM

An explosion outside a mosque prayer hall early on Thursday wounded nine worshippers in the insurgency-wracked Indian administered portion of Kashmir, police said.
The blast occurred after the early morning prayer in Trenz, a village 60 kilometers (40 miles) south of Srinagar, the main city in Indian-administered Kashmir, said police officer Syed Javaid Mujtaba Gillani.
Abdul Gani Dar, a wounded 75-year-old, said a tumbler lying in the mosque complex blew up with a deafening sound as a caretaker picked it up while people were leaving the area.
Four people with multiple shrapnel wounds were taken to a hospital in Srinagar, police said.
Police are investigating, but no one has claimed responsibility for the blast.
Police defused a similar device in the area on Thursday in a house belonging to a commander of a militant group in the Indian administered portion of Kashmir, said Gillani.
On Wednesday night, one Indian army soldier was wounded in an attack by insurgents, police said.


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