克什米尔自杀式爆炸袭击致40死 印度与巴基斯坦关系急剧恶化

The latest on Kashmir, that's the disputed region in the Himalayas split between Indian and Pakistani control. This past week saw a suicide car bomb that killed some 40 Indian troops,

a car bomb for which a Pakistan-based militant group has claimed responsibility. Now, this is the deadliest such attack in three decades.

Tensions between nuclear-armed India and nuclear-armed Pakistan have seldom been higher. NPR's Lauren Frayer was just in Kashmir. She's now back at her base in Mumbai, and she joins us now. Hey, Lauren.

Hi, Mary Louise. Start with the latest 'cause I guess there's been more violence today.

There has. I mean, Kashmir has had this decades-long insurgency, but it normally does quiet down in winter because of this heavy snow.

I was there just a week ago. It was pretty quiet. Now that scene is bombings and gun battles. Today, Indian police say they killed three militants,

including a top figure in that Pakistan-based militant group, Jaish-e-Muhammad. Five Indian troops also were killed today.

Meanwhile, funerals are going on across India for those troops killed in last week's bombing. Some of those funerals have morphed into these sort of nationalist rallies.

Here's what it sounded like just a few moments ago outside my home in Mumbai. Tell me what they're saying, what they're chanting there.

So that was a Hindu procession that erupted into chants of Mother India and expressions of sympathy for martyred - that's a quote - soldiers.