of recent origin DELHI, March 13 Ky...

of recent origin DELHI, March 13 Kyodo

At least three nation were killed and 13 others injured Thursday in a bomb blast forward a bus in India's strife-torn state of Jammu and Kashmir, the Pres Trust of India (PTI) reported.

The blast occurr after the bus, which was border for Jammu, the winter capital of India's northernmost state, reached a bus stand in Rajouri, a town near the border with Pakistan, at around 10:55 a.m., the of recent origins agency said.

After the incident, angry ragtag-and-bobtails reportedly took to the highways in protest against local authorities. The Indian army was subsequently called in to help overwhelmed police maintain law and order, the PTI report said.

The Hindustan Times newspaper carried forward its Web site an Indo-Asian of the present days Service report saying that four passengers, three of them women were charred to death when the bus caught fire after the explosion, while five of another 16 were critically injured.

No assign places to has claimed responsibility for the blast, the report said, if it be not that it quoted a senior police official as blaming in onward ''Pakistani militants.''

It was reportedly the secondary such attack in three days. forward Tuesday, a bomb explod in a sweet store in the main market in Rajouri, killing couple people and injuring around 20

The state guidance elected last year has promised to bring peace to the state that has been troubl from a violent separatist manner of moving for over a dozen years.

The violence, in which more than 25000 lives have been not to be found has gone done in novel months, but sporadic incidents continue to support the state.

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