SRINAGAR: A policeman was killed and four other security forces personnel were injured in a terror attack in
Jammu and
Kashmir's
Bandipora
district on Friday, police said.
They said preliminary investigation revealed that terrorists hurled a grenade at a ‘naka' (patrol) party near
Nishat Park
in the district in
north Kashmir
, causing splinter injuries to five security forces personnel.
The injured personnel were evacuated to a hospital but one of them succumbed, a police spokesman said.
The condition of the other injured personnel is stable, he added.
"At about 1700hrs, terrorists hurled a grenade on a joint party of police and BSF in Bandipora resulting in martyrdom of one police personnel and injuries to four other police personnel," the spokesman said.
He identified the slain policeman as
Zubair Ahmad
.
Police have registered a case under relevant sections of law. Investigation is in progress and officers continue to work to establish the full circumstances of this incident, the spokesman said.
He said the area has been cordoned off and a search operation is in progress to trace the attackers.
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