<div class="socmaildefaultfont" dir="ltr"><p>At least 23 people, including eight security personnel, were injured in separate grenade attacks in Kashmir on Monday.</p><p>Police said that 16 people, including four policemen, were injured when militants lobbed a grenade at Batapora area of south Kashmir’s Shopian district. The grenade exploded along the roadside, inflicting injuries on civilians and policemen, a police spokesperson said.</p><div dir="ltr">The injured include a young girl, who received critical injuries, and inspector Gulzar Ahmad, station house officer of police station Shopian.</div><div dir="ltr"> </div><div dir="ltr">In a separate attack, four paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel and three civilians were injured when militants hurled a grenade at Tahab village in the neighbouring Pulwama district. </div><div dir="ltr"> </div><div dir="ltr">A police officer said that around 4:45 pm, militants lobbed a grenade towards CRPF men deployed in Tahab Chowk, leaving forces personnel and civilians injured. CRPF deputy superintendent Anuj Pathak was among those injured.</div><div dir="ltr"> </div><div dir="ltr">Monday's violence comes two days after CRPF vehicles were targeted in three separate grenade attacks in Srinagar on Saturday. Four CRPF personnel were among eight people injured in Saturday's attacks. Nearly a dozen grenade attacks have taken place in the Valley since Thursday.</div><div dir="ltr"> </div><div dir="ltr">Earlier in the day, Jaish-e-Mohammad militant outfit claimed responsibility for an IED blast in north Kashmir’s Sopore town. “Our cadres triggered the IED in which several Indian security force personnel were injured and a vehicle also got damaged at Nathipora,” a spokesman of the militant outfit was quoted as saying by local news gathering agency GNS.</div><div dir="ltr"> </div><div dir="ltr">Despite the unilateral Ramzan ceasefire offer by New Delhi last month, militants have continued to attack security forces in the last three weeks.</div></div>
<div class="socmaildefaultfont" dir="ltr"><p>At least 23 people, including eight security personnel, were injured in separate grenade attacks in Kashmir on Monday.</p><p>Police said that 16 people, including four policemen, were injured when militants lobbed a grenade at Batapora area of south Kashmir’s Shopian district. The grenade exploded along the roadside, inflicting injuries on civilians and policemen, a police spokesperson said.</p><div dir="ltr">The injured include a young girl, who received critical injuries, and inspector Gulzar Ahmad, station house officer of police station Shopian.</div><div dir="ltr"> </div><div dir="ltr">In a separate attack, four paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel and three civilians were injured when militants hurled a grenade at Tahab village in the neighbouring Pulwama district. </div><div dir="ltr"> </div><div dir="ltr">A police officer said that around 4:45 pm, militants lobbed a grenade towards CRPF men deployed in Tahab Chowk, leaving forces personnel and civilians injured. CRPF deputy superintendent Anuj Pathak was among those injured.</div><div dir="ltr"> </div><div dir="ltr">Monday's violence comes two days after CRPF vehicles were targeted in three separate grenade attacks in Srinagar on Saturday. Four CRPF personnel were among eight people injured in Saturday's attacks. Nearly a dozen grenade attacks have taken place in the Valley since Thursday.</div><div dir="ltr"> </div><div dir="ltr">Earlier in the day, Jaish-e-Mohammad militant outfit claimed responsibility for an IED blast in north Kashmir’s Sopore town. “Our cadres triggered the IED in which several Indian security force personnel were injured and a vehicle also got damaged at Nathipora,” a spokesman of the militant outfit was quoted as saying by local news gathering agency GNS.</div><div dir="ltr"> </div><div dir="ltr">Despite the unilateral Ramzan ceasefire offer by New Delhi last month, militants have continued to attack security forces in the last three weeks.</div></div>
