Kashmir attack: Bomb kills 40 Indian paramilitary police in convoy

[muriel_volestrangler]

At least 40 Indian paramilitary police have been killed in a bomb attack by militants on their convoy in Indian-administered Kashmir.

Police told the BBC that a car filled with explosives had rammed a bus carrying the troops to Srinagar.

Pakistan-based Islamist group Jaish-e-Mohammad said it was behind the attack.

It is the deadliest militant attack on Indian forces in Kashmir since the insurgency against Indian rule began in 1989.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-47240660

[at140]

1. Was there a suicide bomber driving the car?

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. Yes, the article calls it a suicide bombing (nt)

[at140]

3. Thanks for the info..

Those 72 virgins are making some go insane.

[Eugene]

4. Kashmir suicide bomber radicalized after beating by troops, parents say

Source: Reuters

WORLD NEWS FEBRUARY 15, 2019 / 8:11 AM / UPDATED 7 MINUTES AGO

Kashmir suicide bomber radicalized after beating by troops, parents say

Fayaz Bukhari
3 MIN READ

SRINAGAR (Reuters) - A suicide bomber who killed 44 paramilitary policemen in Indian-controlled Kashmir joined a militant group after having been beaten by troops three years ago, his parents told Reuters on Friday.

Pakistan-based Islamist militant group Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) has claimed responsibility for Thursday’s car bomb attack on a security convoy, the worst in decades of insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir, India’s only Muslim majority state. It comes months before a key Indian general election.

Adil Ahmad Dar, 20, from the village of Lethipora in Indian Kashmir, rammed a car full of explosives into the convoy, escalating tension between the nuclear-armed neighbors, which both claim the rugged Himalayan region.

“We are in pain in the same way the families of the soldiers are,” said farmer Ghulam Hassan Dar, adding that his son had been radicalized after police stopped him and his friends on the way home from school in 2016.

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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-kashmir-bomber/kashmir-suicide-bomber-radicalized-after-beating-by-troops-parents-say-idUSKCN1Q41LK