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| Car blast rocks Srinagar | | 4 ultras killed in Doda | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Mar 19
At least 19 persons have been reported injured in a powerful car explosion that rocked the heart of summer capital Srinagar this afternoon.
In another militancy related incident, the security forces achieved a massive success by eliminating four hardcore militants belonging to Lashkar-e-Toiba in a remote area of Doda district.
Reports said that 19 persons are reported to have been injured in a massive car bomb explosion in the heart of Srinagar late Wednesday afternoon. The blast went off on a flyover at the high security Jahangir Chowk locality, adjacent to the civil secretariat and the Jammu and Kashmir High Court.
Due to the blast, the parapet of the flyover gave away and fell on vehicles plying below. 17 people were injured due to some falling pieces of bricks and rubble from the flyover who were rushed to local hospitals for treatment. Police has registered a case in this regard and has taken up investigations to know the cause of explosion.
"We are ascertaining whether it was a car bomb or a pre-planted Improvised Explosive Device," MP Nathanial, CRPF DIG-Operations said. The area has been cordoned off and the injured have been rushed to the nearby SMHS hospital.
Meanwhile, the security forces shot dead four militants of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LET) outfit in remote mountainous area of Doda district. The security forces had prior information about a group of militants hiding in mountainous forests of Gowari area in Doda district, about 190 km northeast of Jammu. The troops threw cordoned around the area and started zeroing in on the suspected hideout of the militants.
According to army spokesman LtCol. S.D. Goswami: "The militants fired at the troops, which led to a gun battle that lasted for over three hours." The spokesman said all the four militants killed in the gun battle belonged to the LET while one of them was a Pakistani national. "Four rifles of AK series and war-like stores were recovered from the slain militants," he said. |
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