Militants fired a rifle grenade at Sopore police station today, injuring three security personnel and a civilian.
Police sources said two CRPF personnel from 179 Battalion Sandeep and Antool, police constable Mohammad Rafiq and a civilian, Mohammad Shafi, were hit by splinters. The grenade landed on the roof of the police station, causing some damage to the building, the police said.
The injured were rushed to a nearby sub-district hospital from where Shafi and constable Rafiq were referred to Srinagar as their condition was stated to be "critical", sources said.
Sopore police station, about 55 km from here, in Baramulla district has been attacked by militants a number of times as the area is particularly hostile to the security forces and sympathetic to militants.
Militants lobbed a grenade at the headquarters of 49 Battalion of the CRPF at Balgarden in Srinagar today. The explosive, however, went off outside the camp and did not cause harm to anybody. No militant outfit has so far claimed responsibility for the attack.
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