Top Muslim cleric among 30 hurt in blast

Srinagar, Nov 10: Three people, including two teenaged girls, were killed while a top Muslim cleric was among 30 others wounded, some of them critically, in a grenade attack on a religious congregation near a mosque in south Kashmir's Pulwama district today, police said.

They said two teenaged girls and a boy were killed and about 30 others wounded when unidentified men hurled a hand grenade at a religious congregation near a mosque at Tahab in Pulwama district at the time of Friday prayers this afternoon.

Police said Abdul Rashid Dawoodi, a top Muslim cleric of south Kashmir, was among those wounded in the grenade attack.

The injured were rushed to various hospitals, where the condition of many of them, including Mr Dawoodi, was stated to be critical, police added. Some of the wounded have been rushed to Srinagar hospitals in serious condition.

The entire area has been cordoned off to nab the attackers. No militant outfit has claimed the responsibility for the grenade attack.

UNI