Five injured in grenade attack in Srinagar

SRINAGAR: Five people were injured in a grenade attack by suspected militants in a market area in Jammu and Kashmir’s Srinagar on Saturday, police said.

Militants hurled a grenade in Hari Singh High Street market area -- a few hundred metres from the city centre Lal Chowk -this afternoon, a police official said.

The grenade exploded on a roadside in the market, injuring five people, he said, adding that the wounded were rushed to a hospital in Srinagar.

According to the official, the explosion also damaged windows of a vehicle parked nearby.

He said the shops in the market were shut but a few vendors had set up stalls in the area

A grenade attack in south Kashmir’s Anantnag city a week ago injured 10 people.

The attack comes even as the state administration announced on Saturday that some 40 lakh post-paid mobile phone services in the Valley will become operational from Monday noon.

The announcement was made by Jammu and Kashmir principle secretary and spokesperson Rohit Kansal at a press conference in Srinagar.

However, over 20 lakh prepaid mobile phones, and mobile and other internet services will remain deactivated for now.

Restrictions were imposed in the state after the government revoked Article 370 that gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir and bifurcated the state into two Union Territories: Ladakh and Jammu and Kashmir.

The government had said the