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30 hurt in grenade attacks in J&K

By Mukhtar Ahmad in Srinagar
June 20, 2003 14:43 IST
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Twenty-seven people, including four cops, were seriously injured in a grenade explosion at Pulwama in south Kashmir on Friday morning.

The police said the militants hurled the grenade on a passing police vehicle. 
The injured people have been shifted to hospital.

In another incident, three people, including two policemen were injured, when militants attacked the heavily guarded Charar-e-Sharief police station with a grenade in central Budgam district.

The were taken to a hospital. The grenade, the police said, exploded inside the complex.

No one has yet claimed responsibility for the attack.

Two days ago an official of the paramilitary Border Security Force died in a gunbattle near Charar-e-Sharief.

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Mukhtar Ahmad in Srinagar