India's First Female Bomber Strikes

[Judi Lynn]

India's First Female Bomber Strikes

By MUJTABA ALI AHMAD
Associated Press Writer

October 13, 2005, 11:27 AM EDT

SRINAGAR, India -- A female suicide bomber blew herself up Thursday minutes before an army convoy was to pass on a key highway in Indian Kashmir, the first such attack by a woman in the region's Islamic separatist conflict, police said.

A militant group claimed five soldiers were killed in the blast, but police denied this, saying there were no other casualties.

The explosion shattered the glass windows of several building in the area in Awantipora, a town nearly 20 miles south of Srinagar, the capital of India's Jammu-Kashmir state, Nissar Ahmad, a police officer, told The Associated Press.

While Kashmiri militants fighting for independence from India have carried out at least 30 suicide bombings since the outbreak of insurgency in 1989, this was the first time a woman has carried out a suicide attack there, said Javed Makhdoomi, the inspector-general of state police.
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http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-kashmir-female-bomber,0,4915714.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines

[lcordero2]

1. first female bomber?

what about the lady from the tamille(spelling?) tigers?

[chookie]

2. Also...

...what about the woman suicide bomber who killed Rajiv Gandhi?

[lcordero2]

3. oops

I think that we are talking about the same person

[carolinayellowdog]

4. Same person, but

the article specifies first Islamic suicide bomber woman

[bemildred]

5. First in Kashmir, the headline sucks. nt