A bomb went off outside a mosque in occupied Kashmir's main city on Friday, killing a prominent Muslim cleric, police and witnesses said, the first such attack near a religious place in recent years. Moulana Showkat Shah, chief of the Jammu and Kashmir Jamiat-e-Ahle Hadith, which is involved in social work, was entering the mosque to lead Friday prayers when the bomb went off.
One worshipper was wounded. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack in occupied Srinagar. Showkat, an associate of Kashmiri leader Yasin Malik, has been targeted in the past by suspected militants for his links with the moderate faction of the Kashmiris.