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India on alert for Republic Day

India has celebrated its annual Republic Day with more than 60-thousand soldiers and police guarding the streets of New Delhi to thwart possible atacks by Islamic guerrillas.

But in Kashmir, Indian police say suspected Muslim militants have blown up a television transmitter.

They say several armed militants descended on a village 60 kilometers north of Kashmir's summer capital, Srinagar, blowing up a mobile van that contained the transmitter.

Separatist militants have in the past carried out attacks on Republic Day against security forces and official celebrations.

More than 35-thousand people have been killed in Indian-administered Kashmir since the launch of a Muslim separatist insurgency in 1989.

27/01/2002 4:04:41 AM | ABC Radio Australia News

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