2 grenades fail to explode in Awantipora

 

2 militants responsible for attack arrested: Police

Srinagar, July 12: Militants on Sunday hurled two grenades on security forces in south Kashmir district of Pulwama, but they failed to explode, an Army official said.

He said the militants attempted an attack on the Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) at 1645 hrs on Sunday at Chersoo, Awantipora in Pulwama.

”Suspects moving on a bike threw two grenades on the CAPF deployment, without taking out the pin,” said the official, adding that the grenades did not explode.

Official sources said that the militants managed to escape from the spot.

”Security forces have been rushed to the area and a search operation has been launched to nab the attackers,” they added.

Meanwhile, a police spokesman in a statement said that the militants who had lobbed the grenades were arrested hours after the act. “In this regard case FIR number 90/2020 U/S 307 IPC, 16,18,20 ULAP Act &  Section 3 of Explosive Substance Act  was registered at police station Awantipora . During the course of investigation it came to fore that two persons were riding a white colour Apache bike that actually had lobbed grenades and were driving very fast. The area was cordoned immediately and during the search of the village Sail, the suspected white colour Apache bike was traced at about 100 meters away from the place of incident. During further search of the area, both the militants, who had lobbed the grenades, were arrested from village Sail Awantipora. They have been identified as Umer  and  Zahid Yusuf Pala both resident of  Aloora Shopian,” the spokesman added.

 

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