4 COPS INJURED IN GRENADE ATTACK IN J&K’S SOPORE

SRINAGAR: Six people, including four policemen, were injured in two different attacks in north Kashmir. In the first attack, four policemen were injured after suspected militants lobbed a grenade in north Kashmir’s Sopore on Wednesday evening. “A grenade blast occurred outside Sopore police station and four cops were injured,” confirmed an official at the police control room in Sopore.

SRINAGAR : Six people, including four policemen, were injured in two different attacks in north Kashmir. In the first attack, four policemen were injured after suspected militants lobbed a grenade in north Kashmir’s Sopore on Wednesday evening.

“A grenade blast occurred outside Sopore police station and four cops were injured,” confirmed an official at the police control room in Sopore. He added that the identities of the injured and the level of injury is being ascertained.

Meanwhile, in the second attack, two people were wounded after they were attacked by unidentified gunmen on Tuesday night in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district, some 65km from Srinagar.

Police said the gunmen opened fire on one Abdul Rashid Lone, 60, a resident of Khanpora, when he was returning home after offering night prayers in a local shrine. Police control room Baramulla informed that Rashid, a retired power development department employee, was hit in his leg. His nephew, Tariq Ahmad, was accompanying him when the attack took place. He too received minor injuries. Both the injured were rushed to the Baramulla district hospital.

Locals said that Rashid was a senior Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) worker.

They said the attacker had pistol and that he fired upon Rashid’s right thigh before fleeing. Immediately after the attack, police launched a search operation to track the attackers.

VALLEY LIMPS BACK TO NORMALCY AFTER THREE DAYS OF CURFEW

Three days after the killing of Hizbul militant Sabzar Bhat in an encounter in south Kashmir, the valley returned to normalcy with curfew, restrictions and shutdown lifted.

Traffic plied normally on all routes and shops and offices reopened after three days.

The government, however, kept higher secondary schools and colleges across Kashmir closed as a precautionary measure on Wednesday.