Neyaz Elahi
Srinagar (NVI): At least four civilians were injured after suspected militants lobbed a grenade towards security forces that missed the target and exploded with a bang on the road in North Kashmir’s Singhpora area of Pattan town here in Baramulla district.
Police sources told NVI that suspected militants hurled a grenade towards a Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) vehicle that was parked in the area.
The grenade exploded resulting in injuries to four civilians who were immediately rushed to Trauma Hospital, Pattan, where doctors referred them to Srinagar hospital.
The injured were identified as 35-year-old Gulzar Ahmed Khan of KP Sarai Singhpora Pattan (Splinter injury in his head), Farman Ahmed, a non-local resident of Uttar Pradesh, 52-year-old Manzoor Ahmed Bhat of Singhpora Pattan and 45-year-old Ghulam Muhammad Parray, a resident of Pattan town.
“These four civilians have received splinter injuries and are stable,” a doctor at SMHS Hospital Srinagar said.
The area was cordoned off and a search operation was launched after the incident, however, no arrests have been made so far.
-CHK
