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| Blast greets Sonia, HM says, 'we did it' | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu|Sep 10: A national leader arrives in Kashmir to convey that the situation was improving and on the occasion there is no incident of violence –at least this has not been over the years. The convention was repeated when the Congress president Sonia Gandhi arrived in Srinagar to attend a women's convention.
Suspected militants triggered a blast this morning that wounded three female police officers in Srinagar, hours before the arrival of Sonia Gandhi, police said.
The attack on a police vehicle in Rainawari area in Srinagar took place just three kilometers from a lakeside Sher-e-Kashmir International Convention Center where Gandhi was to address a women's gathering, said Sajad Ahmed, a police officer on duty.
"Militants always try to make their presence felt whenever there is a visit by a high dignitary," Ahmed said. "We suspect it has been carried out by militants. We are investigating."
Hundreds of security men with automatic weapons were guarding the convention center and the road leading to it from the airport in Srinagar. Security forces also moved around in boats in nearby Dal Lake to thwart any militant attack at the convention center.
The injured officers have been hospitalized, he said.
In a telephone call to the Kashmir New Service, a local news agency, a man claiming to be the spokesman of the Hizb-ul-Mujahedeen said the rebel group had carried out the attack. He identified himself as Junaid-ul-Islam.
Meanwhile, nearly 35 people whose relatives have disappeared in insurgency held a protest in Srinagar park, holding photographs of the missing relatives and chanting, "Where are our missing kin?"
"Sonia Gandhi has come to meet women in Kashmir but what about the thousands of those women whose breadwinners have disappeared?" said Parveena Ahangar, a protester. The group accuses Indian security forces of forcibly taking away civilians suspected for being pro-militant.
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