Six tourists among 10 wounded in Kashmir attack
Source: Reuters
SRINAGAR, India, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Ten civilians, including six Indian tourists, were wounded when suspected separatist militants threw a grenade in a resort town in Kashmir on Tuesday, police said. The tourists were attacked in Tangmarg on their way back from the ski resort of Gulmarg, about 35 km (20 miles) from Srinagar, Kashmir's summer capital, said a senior police officer who did not want to be identified. "We have cordoned off the area," he told Reuters. At least 15 tourists have been killed and 55 wounded this year in a series of attacks on visitors to the scenic Himalayan region. Tuesday's attack came a day after Indian foreign minister Pranab Mukherjee and his Pakistani counterpart Khursheed Mehmood Kasuri held informal talks in New Delhi in a bid to reinvigorate a faltering peace process. A separatist insurgency in the region has killed more than 45,000 people since it began in 1989. Separatists put the toll at more than two times that number.
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