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Rebels planning more suicide attacks SRINAGAR, India, Thursday (AFP) India's army commander for Kashmir, who survived a suicide attack by an Islamic rebel two days ago, has warned that militants are planning more such attacks to boost their morale. "The fact I would like to bring across is that these (suicide) attacks will be there as we are maintaining relentless pressure on them (militants)," said Lieutenant General Hari Prasad, the chief of Indian army's northern command, which takes care of Kashmir's security. "Probably they (suicide attacks) will increase," he told a news conference late Wednesday at the army headquarters in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian-administered Kashmir. Prasad received minor shrapnel injuries when an Islamic rebel Tuesday attacked a group of officers at Tanda garrison near the Indian Kashmir winter capital Jammu. A brigadier was killed and two other generals injured. Prasad said he had been supervising an operation in the Tanda garrison when the militant aimed grenades at them. "The militant was shot and the two grenades exploded in his hands, resulting in minor injuries to me and my colleagues," he said. The group of officers had been inspecting the carnage caused when two other militants earlier Tuesday raided the military camp and shot dead seven soldiers before they themselves were gunned down. Prasad said the attacks were "part of the complete war" Indian troops are fighting within Kashmir. Last month 12 soldiers died in a similar attack in Jammu. |
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