Mine blasts kill 10 in Kashmir

By Shujaat Bukhari

SRINAGAR, AUG. 29. Six Army personnel and three civilians were killed and 12 injured in a powerful landmine blast which ripped apart a passenger bus at Hangalpau village in South Kashmir today.

Police told The Hindu that the bus was on its way to Anantnag from Hapatnar, near here. It was stopped by the Rashtriya Rifles personnel and more than a dozen of them boarded it. As soon as it reached Hangalpau the militants, who were hiding, detonated a landmine.

In a similar blast at Bhaboor in Doda district, militants detonated a landmine. A vehicle of the Rashtriya Rifles was totally damaged and a soldier died on the spot.

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