STATE TIMES NEWS
Srinagar: A labourer from Bihar was killed and two others injured in a grenade attack by terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Thursday, police said.
Terrorists lobbed a grenade at a tent housing labourers at Gadoora village in Pulwama, a police spokesman said. He said one labourer died in the blast while two others sustained injuries.
“The deceased outside labourer has been identified as Mohammad Mumtaz, a resident of Sakwa Parsa, Bihar. The Injured have been identified as Mohammad Arif and his son Mohammad Majbool, residents of Rampor, Bihar,” the spokesman said.
He said the condition of the injured persons is stable.
The labourers were manufacturing cotton bedding, police said. Terrorists had stepped up attacks on non-locals earlier this year but there was a halt in such targeted killings for the past nearly two months. the public and disrupt peace.
“Police along with the Army and the CRPF at a checkpoint established at Fruit Mandi Crossing Handwara intercepted three persons who on seeing the checking party tried to flee the spot but were apprehended,” a police spokesman said.
He said two of the arrested persons have been identified as Manzoor Ahmed Kumar and Showkat Ahmed Bhat.
The identification of the third arrested terrorist has been withheld as his age is being verified, he added.
On their personal search, incriminating material and arms and ammunition including one pistol and two grenades were recovered from their possession, the spokesman said.
