Kashmir blast kills 2, wounds 45
SRINAGAR, India-controlled Kashmir -- A grenade has exploded at a Protestant missionary school in central Srinagar, killing two women and wounding 45 other, police say.
Ten of those wounded in Thursday's blast were children, they said.
The attack took place shortly after 3 p.m. (5 a.m. EDT) at Tyndale Biscoe School in central Srinagar, the main city of Kashmir.
Police suspect Muslim rebels were behind the attack, Reuters reported. Srinager has been at the center of a 15-year revolt against Indian rule.
"The grenade exploded as the school children were coming out of the gate of the school as it closed for the day," a police officer told Reuters.
Bloodstained school bags lay near the school gates, the agency said. Bystanders and police carried the wounded high school pupils to police vehicles which took them to hospitals.
Violence has continued in Kashmir, the cause of two of three India-Pakistan wars, despite an 18-month-old peace process between the two nuclear-armed neighbors.
On Wednesday, rebels set off a crude bomb in Srinagar, killing two people and wounding 35 others.
More than 45,000 people have been killed in the revolt in Jammu and Kashmir -- Hindu majority India's only Muslim-majority state -- since 1989.
