A BSF jawan among six injured in north Kashmir blast

Baramulla, Jan 2 (UNI) A Border Security Force (BSF) jawan was among six people injured in a militant hand grenade attack in north Kashmir this afternoon.

Official sources said militants hurled a hand grenade towards a BSF patrol party at Gulshan Nagar, Bandipora, in this district.

They said six persons, including a BSF jawan were injured in the blast. The injured were hospitalised.

This was the first militant attack in the Kashmir valley in 2008, they added.

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