20 April 2004
Asiya Jeelani
Explosion
In Kashmir, a woman journalist and human rights activist, Asiya Jeelani, 30, was killed with her taxi driver when their car hit a landmine, police said.
Muslim rebels in disputed Kashmir, Maoists in the lawless east and tribal separatists in the northeast hills attacked poll stations, staged landmine blasts and fought gunbattles amid the first of five phases of India's election.
