SRINAGAR, India (AP) -- A grenade tied to a dog's neck exploded in a shopping area in Indian-administered Kashmir on Friday, wounding four people, police said.
The blast missed its apparent target, a paramilitary guard post outside a government hospital in Sopore, a town 50 kilometres north of Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir state, police officer Junaid Ahmad said.
The dog was killed instantly by the explosion, Ahmad said. The wounded were treated at a local hospital and released.
It was the first known time that separatist Kashmiri militants -- the suspects in the attack -- have used such a method. No one claimed responsibility for the attack.
Security officials could not explain how the attackers planned to pull the pin on the grenade, send the dog in the proper direction, and still have time to flee.
Elsewhere, unidentified gunmen shot and killed a 19-year-old man in Kakroosa, a village about 70 kilometres north of Srinagar, police said. Details were not immediately available.
More than a dozen groups have been fighting for Kashmir's independence from India or its merger with neighbouring Pakistan.
More than 66,000 people, mostly civilians, have been killed in the conflict since 1989.
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Dog used in terror attack
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And all those poor people to 
Isn't it interesting that the first thing that entered my mind was "oh, that poor dog". Sadly, it seems, I've become so numb to the issue of people being killed in suicide-bombings that the effect is loosing its impact. But, add an innocent animal into the picture, and my reaction changes. I need to re-consider how society is impacting my thought-process about such things. It's unfortunate that I've (we've??) become so hardened....
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Ixolib wrote:Isn't it interesting that the first thing that entered my mind was "oh, that poor dog". Sadly, it seems, I've become so numb to the issue of people being killed in suicide-bombings that the effect is loosing its impact. But, add an innocent animal into the picture, and my reaction changes. I need to re-consider how society is impacting my thought-process about such things. It's unfortunate that I've (we've??) become so hardened....
Yes it is so sad for both Human and animals.
I really do hate the friggen terrorist so badly.
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Some terrorist knows his history...the Russians did this with dogs to take out German panzers during WW II.
They fed them underneath tanks and armored vehicles from the time they were puppies; then, when needed, they stopped feeding them, and attached a trip-antenna bomb to their backs.
When the hungry dogs were let loose on the Germans, they ran under the panzers, expecting food...then "no more panzer", or dog.
They fed them underneath tanks and armored vehicles from the time they were puppies; then, when needed, they stopped feeding them, and attached a trip-antenna bomb to their backs.
When the hungry dogs were let loose on the Germans, they ran under the panzers, expecting food...then "no more panzer", or dog.
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