14 police personnel injured in grenade attack in Srinagar

World Sunday 02/April/2017 18:30 PM
By: Times News Service
14 police personnel injured in grenade attack in Srinagar

Srinagar: At least 14 police personnel were injured on Sunday in a grenade attack by militants in Nowhatta area of old Srinagar.
Militants hurled the grenade on a police party next to Ganjbaksh Park in Nowhatta area of the city at around 7pm when the cops were withdrawing from there after day-long law and order duty, a police official said. He said 14 policemen were injured in the grenade blast.
The injured cops were taken to a nearby hospital for treatment. The official said miscreants had engaged the cops by pelting stones on them in the same area.