Four police personnel injured in grenade attack near J-K bank in Sopore

IMAGE: ANI

Sopore, Jammu and Kashmir: In yet another terror attack, terrorists on Wednesday hurled grenades at a Police party in Jammu and Kashmir's Sopore, injuring  four police personnel Since the end of October 2016, armed robbers have struck at various branches of banks in Jammu and Kashmir, looting nearly Rs. 92 lakh in 13 separate attacks. There have been four incidents in four days this month, beginning with the bloody attack on a cash van on May 1 during which militants shot dead five policemen and two bank security guards, and including two attacks in two hours in adjacent villages in Pulwama. In another incident a man was injured in an explosion in Pulwama. "Ghulam Mohiudding Shah (45) found some unknown explosive by the roadside at Dalipora in Pulwama district and started fiddling with it", a police official told media.

He said an explosion took place in which Shah was injured. Shah was later shifted to SKIMS Hospital where his condition was stated to be stable.

 The incidents coincide with the spike in militancy and mass protests that followed the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen militant Burhan Wani last July.