(14 Apr 2006) SHOTLIST
1.Various of blood spattered over the road after suspected rebels threw a grenade on Hari Singh high street
2. Paramilitary soldiers checking vehicle which was damaged in grenade blast
3. Various of a police vehicle which was damaged in grenade blast
4. Woman crying
5. Bomb disposal vehicle driving towards blast site
6. Wide of armed policemen patrolling street after another grenade blast on Exchange road
7. Various of policemen walking through rubbles caused by blast, with policeman''s cap lying on the ground
8. Police officers carrying paramilitary soldier injured in blast into police van
9. Wide of dead woman killed in the Hari Singh High Street attack, at Srinagar main hospital
10. Various of injured woman on stretcher, with relatives and doctors around
11. Woman pulled to operation room by doctors
STORYLINE
Suspected separatist rebels carried out five near-simultaneous grenade attacks on Friday in busy areas of the capital of Indian Kashmir, killing five people and injuring at least 18 others, police said.
All the dead were civilians - three women and two men who succumbed to their injuries at the main hospital in Srinagar, said a police officer at the hospital. Two of the dead - one man and one woman - were Nepalese nationals, he said.
Security forces fanned out across the city after the blasts, stopping cars and frisking people as residents hurried home.
The blasts began when a grenade was hurled at an Indian paramilitary truck passing through one of the main thoroughfares in Srinagar, injuring two soldiers.
Minutes later, a grenade attack on Hari Singh High Street, a busy road in Srinagar, the summer capital of India''s Jammu-Kashmir state, killed a young Nepalese woman and a young Kashmiri man and injured six other people, said a police superintendent.
Two policemen were injured in a fourth grenade explosion at the city''s main bus station that set a police jeep on fire, the police superintendent said.
Another occurred in a neighbourhood near the bus station.
The fifth attack occurred at Dal Gate, a promenade by the Dal Lake frequented by tourists and lined by hotels and restaurants.
Three people were killed and eight injured.
The blasts occurred hours before the Friday Muslim prayers that draw thousands of people. Prayer ceremonies, however, continued unhindered.
The attacks happened over about one hour, and in a radius of about two miles (three kilometres) of the city centre.
A local news agency, Current News Service reported that four Islamic rebel groups separately claimed responsibility for the attacks.
The groups include Jamiat-ul-Mujahedeen, Al-Mansurain, Jaish-e-Mohammad and Islamic Front.
Various Islamic militant groups have been fighting Indian security forces in the insurgency-hit state of Jammu-Kashmir since 1989 to create a separate homeland or merge the Himalayan region into Pakistan.
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