The World - News from Feb. 28, 1989

A Muslim man was killed and as many as 30 other people were wounded when a bomb exploded at a protest over “The Satanic Verses” in Srinagar, in India’s Jammu and Kashmir state. Press Trust of India said the bomb was aimed at police. At least 20 people have been killed in protests in India and Pakistan since Feb. 14, when Iran’s Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini declared that author Salman Rushdie should be killed for allegedly blaspheming Islam in his book. Meanwhile, about 15 activists demonstrated in support of Rushdie outside the Iranian Embassy in Moscow. They distributed a statement saying that “while all the civilized world is outraged” by the death sentence, “the Soviet government as usual remains silent.”