Grenade attack in Srinagar on poll eve

Piercing the strong security cordon,militants hurled a grenade at a polling station in Nawab Bazar locality.

A day before voting for Srinagar Lok Sabha constituency,militants on Wednesday made an abortive bid to blow up a polling station in the city where security forces detected and defused a powerful IED outside historic Jamia Masjid averting a possible tragedy.

Piercing the strong security cordon,militants hurled a grenade at a polling station in Nawab Bazar locality here on Wednesday evening.

But the grenade failed to explode and was neutralised by the bomb disposal squad,CRPF spokesman Prabhakar Tripathy told PTI here.

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The grenade attack took place minutes after para-military troopers took positions at the polling booth,he said.

Earlier in the day,security forces detected and defused a powerful Improvised Explosive Device,planted by militants,outside Jamia Masjid in downtown city.

The IED,weighing five-kg,was kept in a gas cylinder near the main gate of the Masjid in interior Srinagar,the spokesman said.

The bomb disposal squad,which was immediately summoned,defused the IED averting a possible tragedy,he said.

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Militants’ plan to set off an explosion on the eve of polling was foiled with timely detection of the IED by alert CRPF personnel,the spokesman said.

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