Indian-controlled Kashmir's new chief minister sworn, car bomb

Описание: (2 Nov 2005) SHOTLIST

1. Wide of Ghulam Nabi Azad taking oath of office as Chief minister of Jammu & Kashmir
2. Mid shot Azad
3. Mid shot Governor of Jammu & Kashmir Lieutenant General (Retd) S K Sinha administering oath of office
4. Cutaway People's Democratic party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti in audience
5. Wide of ceremony
6. Azad shaking hands with Governor Sinha
7. Azad hugging National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah followed by Indian Home minister Shivraj Patil
8. PDP leader Muzaffar Hussain Baig being sworn in
9. Cutaway of Abdullah and Patil in audience
10. Wide of Azad and his cabinet on stage
11. Wide of national anthem being played
12. Azad hugging PDP president Mehbooba Mufti and outgoing Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed after the ceremony
13. Various of debris of car bomb blast
14. Another car's windshield damaged by the impact of the blast
15. Various of injured being rushed to hospital
16. Various of injured on bed

STORYLINE :

A suicide car bomb exploded on the outskirts of Indian-controlled Kashmir's main city on Wednesday, killing two policeman and three passers-by and wounding a dozen others, police and hospital officials said.

The blast occurred on the same day that the state's new chief minister was being sworn in, and was about 15 kilometers (nine miles) from the site of the ceremony in Srinagar.

Congress party leader Ghulam Nabi Azad was sworn in as Jammu and Kashmir's new Chief Minister under the power-sharing agreement with the People's Democratic Party (PDP).

Azad resigned as the Union Parliamentary Affairs minister before being sworn in as the Chief minister in a simple ceremony.

The outgoing chief minister, Mufti Mohammed Sayeed, was from the PDP.

Political leaders from across the political spectrum attended the ceremony.

Azad's swearing in marked the return of Congress to region power after 30 years.

Violence has declined in Kashmir during Mufti Mohammed Sayeed's tenure as chief minister in India-controlled Kashmir.

Sayeed's departure has created an atmosphere of uncertainty in the area, hit by a devastating earthquake this month and battered by a 15-year insurgency by Islamic guerrillas fighting for Indian-controlled Kashmir's independence or merger with mostly Muslim Pakistan.

Earlier on Wednesday, a car bomb exploded on the outskirts of Srinagar, killing six people, including two policemen who tried to flag down the car at a security checkpoint.

The car was stopped at a routine police roadblock in Nowgam, a suburb of Srinagar.

The driver did not stop and instead detonated the bomb.

The Jaish-e-Mohammad militant group claimed responsibility for the incident in a call to a local news agency.

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