2 CRPF jawans, 7 civilians injured in grenade attack
SRINAGAR: Nine persons —two CRPF men and seven civilians— were wounded in a grenade attack in Srinagar on Sunday, officials said.
Officials said that suspected militants lobbed a grenade towards CRPF personnel who were on law and order duty at Pratap Park in Lal Chowk here.
“Two troopers of Charlie 171 company, who were on law and order duty, received minor injuries while seven civilians were also wounded in the attack,” said CRPF spokesman, Pankaj Singh.
A police official said that the two CRPF men were shifted to a medical facility inside police control room (PCR) Srinagar while the civilians were taken to Shri Maharaja Hari Singh (SMHS) Hospital. “The injured are stable,” said the official.
CRPF spokesman later said that one of their injured men was discharged from the hospital.
Senior superintendent of police, Srinagar, Haseeb Mughal said that the grenade was lobbed inside the park where the CRPF men were on law and order duty. “The grenade was lobbed inside the Pratap Park on the corner of it near Taxi Stand. The CRPF men were inside the park,” Mughal said.
“We are investigating who the attackers were ,” he said.
On January 24, three persons including two security men were injured in a grenade attack by suspected militants at Safa Kadal in Old City.
At least ten explosions, most of them grenade attacks, have rocked Kashmir since Jammu and Kashmir’s special status was revoked on August 5 and eight of them have happened in capital Srinagar.
“There have been many arrests in these attacks. Recently we arrested a module of five people of Jaish-e-mohammad,” the SSP said.
On t he s purt i n grenade attacks in Srinagar, Kashmir inspector general of police, Vijay Kumar last week said, “Local militants are making locally improvised grenades and they have to show their presence. There are not many attacks. There have been only a few in January and post August 5, two or three, not more. Grenades lobbed by militants at present are not the same as seen earlier. These are mostly of low intensity,” he said on January 25.