SRINAGAR, INDIA, July 30, 2002: Two people were killed and three seriously injured when a powerful blast ripped apart a car on Anantnag-Amarnath road in Anantnag in south Kashmir on Tuesday evening, official sources said. The blast took place inside a taxi, seriously injuring five persons on K. P. Road near Anantnag bus stand, 55 kms from here, around 5:20 p. m., they said. The injured were immediately rushed to a hospital where two of them were declared dead, the sources said. One of the occupants of the vehicle escaped unhurt. The vehicle was heading towards Pahalgam, the base camp for Amarnath yatra.
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