A suicide bomber killed two Border Security Force personnel and himself on Tuesday when he drove his car into their vehicle on the Srinagar airport road.
SRINAGAR: A suicide bomber killed two Border Security Force personnel and himself on Tuesday when he drove his car into their vehicle on the Srinagar airport road near here.
Twenty-six BSF personnel were wounded, some of them critically, in the explosion carried out by the Hizbul Mujahideen fidayeen (suicide bomber).
The bombing came few hours ahead of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's arrival here to chair the second round table conference besides reviewing the political, security and economic situation in the state.
A BSF spokesman said the suicide bomber rammed his Maruti car into the vehicle carrying about 40 personnel at Peerbagh on the heavily guarded Srinagar airport road at 6.55 pm.
He said 26 BSF personnel were wounded, some of them critically, in the attack. The injured have been admitted to the Army's 92 Base Camp hospital in the Badami Bagh Cantonment area here.
The men were on their way to the BSF's Subsidiary Training Centre at Humhama on the city outskirts in the 52-seater vehicle, when the fidayeen drove his white car into it at Peerbagh in the uptown city, the spokesman added.
Sources said two BSF men and the suicide bomber were killed besides 25 wounded in the explosion.
Ehsan Ilahi, a Hizb spokesman, called the local media here to claim responsibility for the attack.
On Sunday, fidayeen attacked a Congress rally here, killing three civilians and two policemen besides wounding 30, including Inspector General of Police, Kashmir, K Rajendra Kumar.
Two fidayeen were killed in the two-hour gunfight that erupted at the public meeting organised by the state Congress to mark the 15th death anniversary of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi at the Sher-i-Kashmir Municipal Park here on May 21.
Responsibility for the attack was claimed by Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba and Al Mansoorian militant outfits.
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