Kashmir tourist coach explosion kills six

INDIA: Six people, including four women, were killed and at least 21 wounded on Sunday by an explosion aboard a tourist coach in Kashmir's main city, police and witnesses said.

"A low intensity blast took place in a tourist bus, killing six persons," a police statement said, adding that the cause of the explosion blast was under investigation.

A senior police officer said an attack by militants was not ruled out. Police said four of the dead and all the injured were Muslim holidaymakers from the western state of Gujarat.

"We were returning after a prayer at Hazratbal and there was a sudden bang," Imtiyaz Mustufa, an injured tourist, told Reuters, referring to Kashmir's holiest shrine which houses what some believe is a hair from the beard of the Prophet Mohammad.

Srinagar, Monday, Reuters