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14 injured in grenade attack

SRINAGAR, MARCH 3. Fourteen persons were wounded when militants today made an abortive attempt to target a police party in Kulgam town in south Kashmir by detonating a grenade, police said. The militants threw a grenade towards a team of Special Operations Group (SOG) of local police near the Kulgam bus stand. The grenade missed the target and exploded on the road injuring 14 pedestrians.

This is the second such incident in the same area during the past three days. On February 28, in a grenade attack four SOG personnel and a CRPF jawan were injured.

- PTI

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