Grenade Attack: Terrorists hurled a grenade at a recently opened liquor shop in Baramulla, Jammu and Kashmir. One person died and three people were injured in this attack. The attackers had come to the shop posing as a liquor buyer and threw a grenade. Four people were injured when the terrorists hurled a grenade at a liquor shop located on Court Road at around 8:30 pm, officials said.
He said that the injured were taken to a nearby hospital for treatment where one of them, Ranjit Singh, died. A police spokesman said that the four men were shop workers and were residents of Jammu division. The treatment of injured Govardhan Singh, Govind Singh and Ravi Kumar is going on.
The Resistance Force (TRF), a terrorist organization affiliated to Lashkar-e-Taiba, has claimed responsibility for the attack.
Terrorists lobbed hand grenade inside a newly opened wine shop in Baramulla. O4 employees got injured. One among them succumbed to his injuries. All are from Jammu division. Area cordoned and search started to nab the culprits.@JmuKmrPolice @BaramullaPolice
— Kashmir Zone Police (@KashmirPolice) May 17, 2022
Let us inform that earlier on May 12, terrorists had killed government employee Rahul Bhat by entering his office in Budgam district. A day after the assassination of Kashmiri Pandit Bhat, police constable Riyaz Ahmed Thokar was shot dead by terrorists at his residence in Pulwama district.
After Bhat’s murder, members of the Kashmiri Pandit community staged protests. He demanded to shift the government employees of his community to safer places and enhance their security.