Suspected militant on Tuesday attacked an Army vehicle with grenade in south Kashmir’s Anantnag town leaving five pedestrians and one police personnel injured. The incident happened on a day when police arrested four people allegedly involved in a grenade attack on a police post two days ago.
Sources said that the militant tossed a grenade towards a parked Army vehicle near Mehandikadal outside the Deputy Commissioner’s office in Anatnag town of south Kashmir. The grenade missed the target and exploded on the roadside injuring five civilians and a policeman.
No militant group has claimed responsibility for the attack, which created panic in the town.The blast occurred two days after militants had targeted a police post at Sherbagh in the same town on Sunday evening.
Police claimed that four people belonging to Hizbul Mujahideen were arrested in connection with the blast. The district police authorities said that the arrested suspect Irshad Ahamd Dar revealed that one Mukhtar Ahmad Dar lobbed the grenade on directions of a Hizbul Mujahideen militant Mubarak Ahmad Wani alias Major Saqib and another person Fayaz Talak who is imprisoned in Central Jail. The police have not mentioned how the jailed Talak has passed his “directions”.
The police said that the grenade explosion case has been solved by arresting the four suspects. Police are investigating whether the two blasts are interlinked.