At least 16 people were wounded on Tuesday in a grenade attack by militants against Hindu devotees taking part in an annual pilgrimage in Indian held Kashmir, police said. Five of the injured were in a serious condition and have been taken to the main hospital in Srinagar, a police spokesman said. “The area has been sealed off and a search launched to arrest the militants,” the police official said, adding that the casualties included six pilgrims, three police and several others.
Meanwhile, Indian soldiers killed four suspected Islamic militants trying to infiltrate into the Indian held Kashmir from across Pakistan on the same day the attack on the pilgrims was carried out, the army said. An army patrol spotted the four in the Rampur sector, near the Line of Control (LoC), said army spokesman Lieutenant Colonel AK Mathur. The soldiers challenged the militants who opened fire, setting off a battle that killed the suspected guerrillas, Mathur said, adding that four |