SRINAGAR, Sept 30: An Indian policeman was killed and 24 people including 10 policemen were wounded after two grenade attacks on Tuesday by suspected Mujahideen in occupied Kashmir, police said.
Four more people died elsewhere in the restive region, according to police.
Six members of the federal Central Reserve Police Force and 14 civilians were injured in a grenade blast triggered by a Kashmiri fighter in the village of Gagran, on the outskirts of Shopian township, 50km south of Srinagar, a spokesman said.
“A solo militant hurled a hand grenade at a CRPF patrol on Tuesday which exploded with a bang, sending splinters in all directions,” the spokesman said.
In a separate attack, a policeman died and four others were injured after a Mujahid hurled a grenade at a police post at Surankote in the southern Poonch district, about 210 kilometres west of Jammu, a spokesman said.
In further violence, a soldier was killed overnight and an officer injured in an ambush carried out by Kashmiri fighters armed with AK-47 rifles and bombs in Thanamandi, in Rajouri district, police said.
Two Mujahideen were killed in a 20-hour encounter with the Indian security forces in the Marwah area of Kishtwar, 200 kilometres south-east of Kashmir’s winter capital Jammu on Tuesday.
Another Kashmiri was killed in northern Baramulla district overnight, a police spokesman said. On Tuesday the people slain in the Gurez sector were not Mujahideen, a UJC statement said.
“Those killed in Gurez were either detained Kashmiris or those who have disappeared mysteriously during the past several years,” the statement, circulated through a local news agency, said.—AFP
