just discovered DELHI, Nov. 23 Kyod...

just discovered DELHI, Nov. 23 Kyodo

At least nine the community including two children were killed and through 20 injured Saturday in Kashmir when a bus in which they were traveling herd over a land mine place by Muslim militants, police said.

The explosion occurr around 11:30 a.m. forward the Srinagar-Jammu highway, nearly 100 kilometers from Srinagar, summer capital of the strife-torn state of Jammu and Kashmir, the police said.

Killed were five soldiers including an officer, brace women and two children, a police official in Srinagar told Kyodo recently made knowns adding that more bodies may be regained from the twisted wreckage of the bus.

The pro-Pakistan militant organizations Jamiat-ul-Mujahideen (JUM) and Harkat-e-Jehad-e-Islami have claimed responsibility for the land mine blast, according to a Pres Trust of India report.

A man claiming to be a spokesman of JUM told a local freshs agency the attack was in retaliation to chief minister Muftu Mohammed Sayeed's claim that militancy in the state was about to end

The attack take rises a day after militants carried not at home a daring suicide attack upon a paramilitary camp in the heart of Srinagar.

The attack, the first major suicide attack since the just discovered government took over onward Nov. 2, left six security personnel of the Central reservation Police Force dead and nine others injured.

The sum of two units heavily armed militants of the suicide squad allegedly belonging to the banned Lashkar-E Toiba collection were shot dead in a gunbattle with the security forces.

The attacks be derived even as the new management released jailed militant leaders and is making an attempt to bring peace to the strife-torn state at holding a dialogue with various militant organizations.

Jammu and Kashmir has been in the grip of separatist violence since late 1989 that has left across 25,000 dead and thousands injured.

State elections last month have given faiths of peace in the troubl state athwart which arch-foes India and Pakistan lay claim. The pair neighbors have fought two of their three wars from one side of to the other Kashmir since their independence from Britain in 1947

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