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One dead, seventeen injured in grenade attack in Kashmir

One person is dead and seventeen others have been injured in a grenade explosion set-off by suspected Muslim militants in Indian Kashmir.

Police say the explosion was reported from the southern town of Kishtiwar, 250 kilometres south of Srinagar, Kashmir's summer capital.

Police say militants hurled a hand grenade at a security force patrol which missed the target and exploded on the roadside, killing a civilian and injuring seventeen others.

20/02/2002 05:05:06 | ABC Radio Australia News

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