Ten persons, including 5 CRPF personnel injured in Srinagar blast

Srinagar, June 23 (UNI) Ten people, including five Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel, were injured in a grenade blast in Srinagar this afternoon.

Official sources said militants hurled a hand grenade towards a CRPF patrol party near Shamhan Ghat at Karan Nagar this afternoon.

They said ten persons, 5 of them CRPF personnel, were injured.

The injured have been hospitalised.

A CRPF spokesman told UNI that militants hurled the grenade on a patrol party from a running vehicle.

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