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21 injured in J&K blast

Mukhtar Ahmad in Srinagar | June 23, 2004 11:11 IST

Twenty-one people, including a policeman, were injured in a grenade explosion in Bejinehara in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag district, on Wednesday morning.

Militants had hurled the grenade on a passing security force vehicle in the main market at Bejibehara.

"The grenade missed the target and exploded on the Srinagar-Jammu national highway, resulting in injuries to 21 people, who were taken to sub-district hospital Bejibehara," said a police officer.

Bejibehara is Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed's hometown.


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