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33 killed as Kashmir militants attack bus, army camp

AFP, Jammu
Thirty-three people were killed yesterday when three Muslim militants opened fire on a civilian bus in Kashmir and then stormed the residential quarters of a nearby Indian army camp, officials said.
Twenty-three people, 18 of them women and children, were killed at the army camp near Kashmir's Hindu-majority winter capital Jammu, along with seven bus passengers and three rebels, Home Minister Lal Krishna Advani said in New Delhi.
The attack, the deadliest on the army in Kashmir in the past year, came just hours after US Assistant Secretary of State Christina Rocca arrived in New Delhi to urge the Indian leadership to cool tempers with Pakistan.
"Events like this will ensure that restraint (by India) will not last," junior foreign minister Omar Abdullah told reporters.
Rocca said Washington "unequivocally" denounced the attack.
"It is precisely this type of Barbaric terrorism that the international war on terrorism is determined to stop," she said.
The Pakistani government condemned the attack but called for an inquiry.
"Acts of violence resulting in civilian casualties in the Indian occupied Kashmir and India continue to coincide with high-level visits to the region," a foreign office statement said.
"Such incidents warrant an impartial and comprehensive inquiry to
unmask the motives of their perpetrators."
A little-known rebel group called al-Mansoorain claimed responsibility for yesterday's attack in a telephone call to the NAFA news agency in Kashmir's summer capital Srinagar.
But an army official alleged it was the work of Jaish-e-Mohammad, a hardline movement blamed in part by India for the parliament attack. The group, known for suicide bombings, was later banned by Pakistan.
"The identities of the militants could not be ascertained, but it is believed they are from Jaish-e-Mohammad," Major General Mohan Pandey, who commands the 26th infantry, told AFP.
The militants had boarded a bus from Himachal Pradesh state en route to Jammu.
"At 6:10 am local time, they opened indiscriminate fire in the bus and lobbed a grenade," Pandey said.
Seven bus passengers, four of them women, were killed in the bloodbath at Kaluchak, some 15 kilometers south of Jammu, he said.
A guard at a nearby army camp spotted three guerillas as they ran out of the bus and opened fire on them. One rebel was killed, but the others sneaked into the army camp's residential quarter, where they began shooting at soldiers' family members, officials said.
"Some of them bolted their doors from inside, but the militants tried to open the doors and were shooting at the family members," Pandey said.
The army retaliated by firing rockets at a nearby house where the militants were believed to have taken refuge. The operation was over by 10:00 am (0430 GMT) with all three rebels dead, Pandey said.
The army camp mostly housed women and children, as the bulk of the soldiers had been deployed to the disputed border with Pakistan.
The buildings were devastated
by the attack. The army rushed the remaining families out of the camp and put them up a nearby regiment center, officials said.