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Car blast case: 6 held

SRINAGAR, AUG. 23. In a major breakthrough, police have arrested six militants, including a Pakistani national and a member of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, in connection with the August 10 car bomb explosion in Srinagar that left 15 people dead, including a photo-journalist of a Delhi-based national English daily, police official said today.

Those arrested were a Pakistani, Iqbal Khan alias Manzoor, Mir Hussain Cheechee, Shafat Reshi, Haji Ali Mohammad, his son and Abdul Hameed Bhat alias Hamid Cheni. Efforts were on to nab Abu Hurera, the mastermind behind the blast, the police official said.

- PTI

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