One civilian killed, four policemen injured in grenade attack at Srinagar

A police official said the grenade exploded on the roadside, resulting in injuries to the policemen and the civilian.

A 65-year-old man was killed and five others, including four policemen, were wounded in a grenade attack by suspected militants in Srinagar on Sunday evening.

Representative Image: A police official said the grenade exploded on the roadside, resulting in injuries to the policemen and the civilian. (PTI)

Police said a grenade was lobbed near the office of the superintendent of police, North City.

A police official identified the slain civilian as Ghulam Mohammad Khan, a resident of Ilahibagh in outskirts of the city. Eyewitnesses said that Khan was passing by on a bicycle when suspected militants targeted a police party who were conducting searches of the vehicles in Khanyar.

“The cops were checking vehicles in the square when suddenly there was a bang. I was meters away from the place in my vehicle,” said an eyewitness who did not wish to be named.

The attack was the culmination of a day which witnessed a shutdown in Kashmir valley called by separatists protesting the killing of a civilian by government forces after a militant attack on their camp in Kupwara on Thursday. The forces had allegedly opened fire on a group of people who were demanding the bodies of the two militants killed during the encounter. Three army men including an officer were also killed in the attack.