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| Peerzada says survived militant attack, Police denies | | | Jammu, Sept 2: In an interesting event, the President of the Pradesh Congress Committee and Education Minister Peerzada Mohammad Sayeed today claimed to have survived a fatal militant attack but Police denying any such thing described the incident as a minor tyre burst.
It happened this morning at Potkhah near Pattan on Srinagar-Baramullah road when Peerzada Mohammad Sayeed was on way to a public meeting that a deafening sound created panic leading to fire in retaliation by the Army jawans who were just passing by.
Peerzada and his aides said that they came under militant attack but a Police spokesman told EARLY TIMES over phone from Srinagar that a worn out tyre of a front escort TATA Sumo vehicle burst on the way which the passing by Army convoy mistook as a grenade attack and resorted to firing. However, no injuries were caused to any one, not even the commuters of the vehicle who tyre had burst, said a Police spokesman.
"Militants fired at my vehicle at Potkhah (Pattan) today. My guards returned the fire. Thank God, no one was injured," the minister said.
However, the Police spokesman said that the troops resorted to panic firing when an old tyre of Sumo vehicle in which Division Officer of Mirgund was escorting Education Minister in the front burst at Putkhah on Srinagar-Baramulla road short of Sangrama.
According to DIG North Kashmir Range, Dr. B. Srinivas, Division Officer, Mirgund was escorting carcade of the Jammu and Kashmir education Minister Peerzada Mohammed Syed in a Sumo vehicle who was on its way from Srinagar to Sopore. When the carcade reached Putkhah near Sangrama, while overtaking an Army convoy, old tyre of the Sumo of DO who was front escort burst, resulting in a blast which triggered panic fire from Army, he added. He said that no one was injured in the incident.
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