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Srinagar, Jun 27 (UNI) A 25-year-old, who was critically injured along with three other civilians on Saturday in a grenade attack by militants on security forces in the summer capital, Srinagar, succumbed, official sources said on Sunday.
Meanwhile, police are checking CCTV footage of the area to identify the militants responsible for the attack. This is the third militant attack on security forces in Srinagar city this week.
Official sources said that unidentified militants lobbed a grenade at CRPF personnel deployed in the Barbarshah area in civil lines on Saturday evening.
However, they said the grenade missed the target and exploded at a distance, resulting in injuries to four civilians, including a woman. “The injured were immediately taken to a hospital, where one of them, identified as Mudasir Ahmad Bhat, succumbed late last night,” they said.
They said after completing all the legal and medical formalities, the body of the deceased was handed over to his relatives for last rites in Beerwah in the central Kashmir district of Budgam. “Bhat was running a poultry shop in the area,” they added.
They said the CCTV footage has been acquired and the identity of the militants responsible for the attack is being ascertained. “Police has also mobilized its informers on the ground to identify the accused,” they added.
Militants have up the ante at security forces during the last about a week in the city, where earlier three persons, including a CID officer and a civilian, were killed in separate incidents. On Tuesday, militants shot dead a CID officer of J&K Police at Nowgam in Srinagar outskirts. A shopkeeper was killed by suspected militants at Habbakadal in downtown Srinagar on Wednesday. Later on Thursday, Militants shot dead a policeman in the Eidgah area of downtown Srinagar.
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