Woman among 8 injured in Srinagar grenade attack

SRINAGAR: At least eight civilians including a woman were injured after militants hurled a grenade in a busy market in the commercial Hub Lal Chowk in Srinagar on Saturday afternoon.
Militants hurled a grenade at the Hari Singh High Street in Srinagar when vendors were selling goods and the market was crowded with shoppers.
“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 the roadside, injuring at least eight people, he said, adding they included a woman.
"All the injured have been shifted to Shri Maharaja Hari Singh hospital for treatment,” he said.
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.
Soon after the attack, the area was sealed and searches were being conducted to nab the attackers even as a heavy deployment of police and paramilitary troopers were witnessed in the market.
The grenade attack took place an hour after the government stated that they had credible inputs about the major militant attack in Kashmir and appealed people to resume normal activities.
It was the third grenade attack in the valley post removal of Article 370 on August 5.
The first grenade attack took place on the Central Reserve Paramilitary Force (CRPF) in Downtown Srinagar; however, no causality occurred in the incident.
Second attack took place in Anantnag district near District Commissioner Office on October 5, resulting in injuries of 14 persons.
Eye-witnesses informed The News Now that people were buying items, clothes and other essentials from roadside vendors who have set up stalls at Hari Singh High Street, when the blast took place.
Another eye witness said, “I had come to HSHS to buy clothes and heard a loud bang. The people were running to the safer places while a few were in the pool of blood.”
Since August 05, the business activities across Kashmir have come to grinding halt unprecedented clampdown and spontaneous shutdown.
Militants have been threatening shopkeepers, transport operators and other business establishments not to resume normal activities since abrogation of Article 370.

Updated On 10/13/2019 10:39:57 AM

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