Body of Srinagar blast victim arrives here this evening

Kolkata, Jun 2 (UNI) The body of Mr Swaraj Dutta, who was killed in a terrorist attack in Srinagar and will arrive here this evening.

While the body of Mr Dutta will be brought in a special flight of Indian Airlines via Delhi, a BSF aircraft will carry those injured back home, Tourism Minister Manab Mukherjee said.

He said some of the 55 tourists, who were travelling in the vehicles which came under grenade attacks by unidentified militants, would arrive by train.

Altogether 28 tourists from West Bengal were injured in Wednesday's grenade blast at Dalgate. One of them, who was critically injured, died at Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) at Soura early this morning.

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