A grenade attack took place at Jammu bus stand on Thursday morning. Two people died and 32 injured were admitted to hospital. The police suspect the involvement of militant group Hizbul Mujahideen and have apprehended a youth from Anantnafor questioning.
“Teams were constituted to work on leads, CCTV camera footage examined, based on oral testimony of witnesses we were able to identify a suspect. He was detained, his name is Yasir Bhatt, he has confessed to the crime,” J&K Police’s Manish K Sinha told media at a presser.
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This is the third grenade attack in the city since May last year.
#UPDATE : 28 people injured in grenade explosion at Jammu bus stand #JammuBusStand #JammuBusStandBlast #jammu https://t.co/P88OGGA92R
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J&K: Blast at Jammu bus stand. Injured admitted to hospital. Area has been cordoned off by security personnel pic.twitter.com/utO7RX0GOp
— ANI (@ANI) March 7, 2019
Jammu: Visuals from a hospital where people who were injured in the blast at a bus stand have been admitted for treatment.#jammu #JammuBusStand #JammuBusStandBlast pic.twitter.com/WQ1tKvwKRp
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The attack comes around three weeks after the dastardly Pulwama attack. The Indian Air Force carried out air strikes on the biggest terror camp of Jaish-e Mohammad in Pakistan’s Balakot, ten days after the Pulwama attack.