Through PTI
SRINAGAR: A civilian was once killed whilst 24 others, together with a policeman, have been injured after terrorists hurled a grenade at safety forces within the busy Hari Singh Top Boulevard marketplace in the summertime capital of Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday, police stated.
“At about 4:20 pm, terrorists hurled a grenade upon police and safety forces deployment at Hari Singh Top Boulevard,” a police legit stated.
He stated a policeman, known as John Mohammad, and 24 civilians gained splinter accidents within the explosion.
The injured have been rushed to the Shri Maharaja Hari Singh (SMHS) Health center, the place a civilian succumbed to his accidents, the legit added.
The deceased was once known as Mohammad Aslam Makhdoomi (70), a resident of the Nowhatta space of town.
Senior cops reached the spot and the world was once cordoned off, the legit stated.
Police have registered a case and begun investigation, he stated.
Inspector Basic of Police (IGP) of Kashmir Vijay Kumar stated they have been operating in opposition to id and arrest of the ones concerned within the grenade assault.
Kumar stated the police will ruin this grenade-throwing module on the earliest.
“Police have were given some essential clues and investigation is conscientiously occurring in the fitting course,” Kumar stated.
Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha condemned the assault and stated the federal government is firmly resolved to dismantle the fear ecosystem and defeat the risk perpetrated by means of the neighbouring nation.
“I strongly condemn the fear assault at Srinagar. My private condolences to circle of relatives of blameless civilian martyred & want rapid restoration to injured. We’re firmly resolved to dismantle terror ecosystem & defeat terrorist risk that is still perpetrated by means of neighbouring nation,” Sinha stated on Twiitter.
Leaders of more than a few political events, together with former leader ministers Farooq Abdullah, Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti, condemned the assault.
In a observation, Nationwide Convention president Farooq Abdullah and Vice President Omar Abdullah condemned the killing of the civilian and accidents to others, together with a cop, within the grenade assault.
The daddy-son duo stated violence has no position in an emancipated global.
“Such incidents go away a path of lifelong miseries in the back of them,” they stated within the observation. The duo inspired upon the management to verify easiest of hospital therapy to all of the injured.
Peoples Democratic Birthday celebration (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti stated the folks of J-Okay had been paying with their lives however neither India nor Pakistan have been doing anything else to finish the war.
“Condemn this dastardly assault. Folks of J&Okay had been paying with their lives & unfortunately neither India nor Pakistan are doing anything else to finish the war & prevent this bloodshed. My prayers are with the bereaved households & family members,” Mufti stated in a tweet.
The Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) condemned the assault and termed it senseless and inhuman.
“Very unlucky and extremely condemnable act, the ones accountable in the back of the assault should know that they would possibly not succeed in anything else out of such inhuman acts,” a spokesperson of the JKPCC stated.
He stated the celebration calls for exemplary punishment to the perpetrators of the heinous crime.
The JKPCC additionally conveyed heartfelt condolences to circle of relatives of the slain individual and expressed team spirit with them.
The Folks’s Convention, led by means of Sajad Lone, additionally condemned the assault.
“We’re surprised on the extraordinarily distressing information of a grenade assault at a crowded market in Amira Kadal, Srinagar. We unreservedly condemn the dastardly and cowardly assault during which one civilian died whilst many are injured,” the celebration stated in a observation.
The perpetrators of the assault should be held responsible and delivered to justice, it added.
“We pray for peace to the departed soul and swift restoration of those that have sustained accidents on this despicable act of violence. Our ideas and prayers are with their households and family members all the way through this horrible time,” the celebration stated.
Condemning the incident, Apni Birthday celebration president Altaf Bukhari stated violence is unacceptable.
“My ideas and prayers with the ones injured in Hari Singh Top Boulevard grenade assault. Violence in any of its manifestations is unacceptable to us. I unequivocally condemn this cowardly act of violence,” he stated in a tweet.
Jammu and Kashmir BJP spokesperson Altaf Thakur additionally condemned the grenade assault and described it as a barbaric and cowardly act.
“Lobbing a grenade at a hectic position is an act of frustration on a part of militants,” he stated.
He expressed grief over the dying of the civilian and prayed for the restoration of the injured.
Thakur steered the police to trace the attackers and punish them sternly.
