Rebels using mobile phones as bomb triggers in India-controlled Kashmir

By Xinhua

New Delhi : Rebels in India-controlled Kashmir are using mobile phones to trigger bomb explosions, a newsreport said Sunday.


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The Hindustan Times quoted an official of India’s central reserve police force (CRPF) as saying that troops fighting armed rebellion have detected a fifth bomb connected with a mobile handset this summer alone in India-controlled Kashmir.

Indian troops say they have been able to defuse the five improvised explosive devices.

“They (Kashmiri rebels) have changed their earlier strategy of hurling grenades,” the report quoted a CRPF official as saying.

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