SRINAGAR, (PTK): Witnesses say it was an ordinary, albeit cold day in Kashmir when Adil Ahmad Dar drove his car into an Indian paramilitary convoy and detonated his explosives, killing 40 soldiers and himself in the deadliest attack of the region’s 30-year-old insurgency.
Dar’s actions did not only impact the lives of those Indian paramilitary officers and their families. The attack took place on the busy main highway between the region’s two main cities, Srinagar and Jammu. Body parts flew into the gardens of nearby homes, where children were playing. Residents were hurt, some badly, by broken glass, as the force of the blast shattered every window in a hamlet by the road. A row of shops lining the highway was badly damaged, and many have still not reopened.
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