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SRINAGAR, India, April 11 (AFP) - A dozen Indian policemen were wounded in Kashmir Tuesday when Muslim fighters tossed a hand grenade onto the pitch of a friendly football game, officials said. The grenade was hurled as the police were playing in the backyard of a fortified police station in downtown Srinagar, the urban hub of Muslim jihad in the Indian zone of the disputed Himalayan state. A police spokesman said nine state police constables and three federal troopers from the Central Reserve Police Force were wounded. Other security personnel watching the game opened fire with rifles, and cordoned off the area to search for the attackers in the city's Safakadal residential district, the spokesman said. None of Kashmir's two-dozen independence groups have claimed responsibility for the attack. Police, meanwhile, shot dead a senior mujahid belonging to the dominant Hizbul Mujahideen group in an overnight gunbattle near Srinagar, the spokesman said. More than 25,000 people have died in Kashmir since 1989 in violence related to the Muslim independence drive in the Himalayan region.
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