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Indian separatists threaten more attacks
January 3, 1997
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EST ( 2300 GMT)SRINAGAR, India(CNN) -- Five people were killed Friday in a bomb explosion near the house of the chief minister of India's Jammu and Kashmir state, Farooq Abdullah, Indian police said. Abdullah was not in the area at the time. At least six people were reported wounded.
A militant Kashmiri separatist group, Jamait-ul-Mujahideen, claimed responsibility for the attack. A spokesman said attacks on pro-India leaders would continue in the troubled state. More than 20,000 people have died in Kashmir since a separatist revolt erupted in 1990, police and hospital officials have said.
On Wednesday, a junior minister in Abdullah's government escaped an attack by separatist guerrillas while he was paying his respects to his deceased father in a cemetery in Srinagar.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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