3 Killed in Blast in Jammu and Kashmir
A powerful explosion ripped through a courthouse in the town of Pattan in the northern Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, killing three people and injuring 34, police said. They named no suspects, but the attack came the same day as other killings in the region were blamed on separatist guerrillas.
Two soldiers and two suspected separatists were killed in a border post attack in Bandipore. Separately, two members of India’s security forces died when suspected rebels ambushed a patrol in the village of Sumlar, a police official said.
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