At
least 32 persons, including 12 school children,
were injured in separate grenade attacks in
the Pulwama and Kupwara districts on April 25,
according to Daily Excelsior. At least
12 school children were among 24 persons injured
when terrorists lobbed a grenade at a crowded
market in the Tral town of Pulwama district.
Official sources said the grenade was apparently
targeted at a patrolling party of the Border
Security Force (BSF). In a separate grenade
attack in Lolab Kupwara, at least eight passengers
were wounded when a vehicle they were traveling
in ran over a land mine on the Warnow-Kupwara
road.
Terrorists
shot dead two Special Police Officers, Devinder
Kumar and Rishi Kumar, who were posted on guard
duty of a protected person at Arnora in the
Doda district. Official sources said the terrorists
opened firing on the guards of Shashi Kumar
Kesari, who had unsuccessfully contested the
elections for Parliament and State Legislative
Assembly from Doda, at village Arnora killing
both his body-guards. Kesari, who was present
in the house at the time of firing, escaped
unhurt. None of his family members were injured
in the firing.
Unidentified
terrorists shot at and injured a civilian, identified
as Abdul Ahad, at Kushalpora Sopore in the Baramulla
district.
Meanwhile,
a BSF personnel, who was injured in a separate
grenade attack in Batamaloo on April 24-evening,
succumbed to injuries in a hospital on April
25. Further, a bookseller, Manzar Illahi, who
was wounded by suspected terrorists at Shopian
in the Pulwama district on April 25 also succumbed
to his injuries in a Srinagar hospital.
In
another incident, troops killed a Hizb-ul-Mujahideen
(HM)
‘group commander’, identified as Mohamed Maqbool
alias Tanveer, at Sumbar in the Gool area of
Udhampur district. One AK rifle with four magazines,
57 rounds, one wireless set, one mobile telephone
and two hand grenades were recovered from him.
A
woman, identified as Dilshada Banoo, was arrested
for her alleged links with terrorists at Rajpora-Zachaldara
village in the Kupwara district. Hailing from
Chanjmoulla village, the woman was reportedly
in possession of a Kenwood wireless set. Security
forces also arrested a suspected terrorist from
the Teetwal area of Kupwara district along with
two mobile phones.
Elsewhere
in the State, security forces recovered 25 kilograms
of explosives from an aluminum bowl, hidden
under the seat of a passenger bus, which was
on way from Kishtwar to Jammu. |
