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SRINAGAR (AFP) - A prominent Kashmiri Shiite leader, Maulvi Iftikar Hussain Ansari, was injured and two of his followers killed in a powerful landmine explosion, police sources here reported. The sources said the landmine ambush occurred at around 5.45 p.m. (1215 GMT) near the township of Pattan, some 30 kilometers (18 miles) north of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian-administered Kashmir. Ansari, a former Kashmir state cabinet minister and currently a legislator belonging to the state's ruling National Conference Party, received splinter injuries from the blast. The police said Ansari was returning from a Shiite congregation when the attack took place at the village of Singhpura near Pattan. So far, no one has claimed responsibility for the attack on Ansari, who has been rushed to hospital. Armed assassins also attacked Ansari in May this year. The raid left six of his followers dead and around 30 injured near the tiny township of Pattan. Kashmir's state power minister, Ghulam Hassan Bhat, was killed in a landmine ambush earlier in the year. |
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