33 dead in Kashmir bus blast

A bomb attack on a bus carrying holidaying soldiers and their families killed 33 people and wounded 10 in Indian-controlled Kashmir today, just hours before the country’s new government began work, officials said.

The attack by suspected Islamic separatists is one of the worst in recent history and is the first security test for newly installed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who has pledged to make the Kashmir crisis and relations with rival Pakistan main priorities of his minority government.