Two IED blasts, 2 killed, 21 injured in J

Srinagar, Nov 14 (UNI) As India and Pakistan began Foreign Secretary level talks in New Delhi, militants today made an abortive bids to blow up the batallion headquarter of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and an army convoy when they triggered 2 powerful Improvised Explosive Devices (IED), causing injuries to 21 people- including ten security personnel.

Militants also slaughtered one person and shot dead another in the state overnight.

Official sources said militants detonated an IED, reportedly fitted in a parked car, just outside the headquarters of the CRPF at high security Karan Nagar area at 1600 hours.

A CRPF spokesman told UNI that militants first lobbed a hand grenade towards the main entrance of the camp. However, when the security force came out to search the area after some time, there was a loud blast, he said.

''We could not say whether the IED was kept in a parked car or scooter,'' he said, adding two CRPF personnel were wounded. The car and the scooter besides six other vehicles were damaged.

He said the main aim of the militants seemed to lure out the security personnel near the grenade blast and then trigger the blast for causing major damage.

Inspector General of Police (Kashmir range) S M Sahai told reporters near the site of the blast that five state police, two CRPF personnel and eight civilians were injured in the blast.

The injured have been admitted to different hospitals.

He said security forces and police have launched operation to nab the militants responsible for the causing the blast.

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