Srinagar - A minister in the strife-torn Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir and four other people were killed yesterday when a bomb planted by guerrillas blew up the official's car, police said.
It was the first killing of a government minister in Kashmir since an armed revolt broke out in the Himalayan region in 1990. The junior power minister, Mr Ghulam Hassan, Bhatt died when his car drove over the bomb in Dooru in Anantnag district.
