JAMMU: Thirty passengers were killed when Indian security forces exploded bus after one passenger had shot dead a security man trying to intercept the vehicle.
All Kashmir Passenger and Goods Transporters Welfare Association protested against the forces attack on the bus and gave a call for strike for two days. The vehicle was driven by its driver AK. Bhat. All 30 passengers including its crew were killed when security forces bombed the bus.
An official spokesman, however, dubbed the passengers as “terrorists” because one of them had killed a security man.
Normal life was totally paralyzed in most parts of the valley on the third day of a strike call to protest against the Thueen (Kangan) incident of September 11.
Article extracted from this publication >> September 21, 1990
