Militants on Friday lobbed a grenade on a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) party at Pampore town injuring three CRPF men and two civilians. Militant outfit Tahreek-ul-Mujahideen claimed responsibility for the attack.
Sources said that unidentified militants hurled a grenade towards a CRPF party deployed on the safety of vital Srinagar-Jammu National Highway on Friday morning. The splinters hit at least five persons including three personnel and two civilian pedestrians.
Spokesman of the CRPF Ashish Jha said the injured CRPF personnel retaliated to militants in due time, but despite being injured by splinters, troops exercised high restraint and patience and forestalled further retaliation on the militant since they were escaping towards civilian residential lanes where any attempt of firing by CRPF could have been detrimental. In order to avoid such collateral damage, CRPF troops did not continue to retaliate as such action could have resulted into civilian casualties.