As many as 23 people, including eight security personnel, were injured on Monday as terrorists tossed grenades at two places in Shopian and Pulwama in south Kashmir.

The first grenade blast took place in the morning at the busy Batpora marketing place in Shopian, in which 16 people, including 4 policemen, were injured.

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The other attack came in the afternoon in the Tahab Chowk of Pulwama where four CRPF personnel, including a DSP, and three civilians were injured.

Police said a mother and her daughter were critically injured in the blast in Shopian and they were shifted to the Government Medical College Hospital at Srinagar for treatment.

The terrorists targeted a police vehicle, leaving the SHO of Shopian police station, Inspector Gulzar Ahmad, and constables Altaf Ahmad, Javed Ahmad and Nazir Ahmad injured.

A police spokesman said the grenade exploded along the road amid the civilian population.

Two injured women, Farida and Nadiya, were shifted from the district hospital to Srinagar for treatment. Police are investigating.

Seven people, including four CRPF personnel, were injured on Monday when terrorists tossed a grenade in the Tahab Choke area in Pulwama town of south Kashmir.

The police said the three civilians injured in the grenade blast had been shifted to Srinagar for treatment. All injured were stable, they added.

Grenade attacks on the rise

Terrorists are on grenade hurling spree ever since the Centre announced unilateral ceasefire during Ramzan.

The Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) has owned responsibility of these grenade blasts.

On Saturday, eight people including four Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers and an equal number of civilians were injured in three grenade attacks carried out by terrorists in Srinagar.

On Friday, militants had fired a rocket-propelled grenade at the house of a PDP legislator in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district but it exploded without causing any damage, said the police. The attack on ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) MLA Mushtaq Ahmad Shah’s house in Tral town came two days after a rocket-propelled grenade was fired at National Conference leader Muhammad Ashraf Bhat’s house in the town.

DGP SP Vaid said four miscreants of a module involved in grenade blasts had been arrested. The police are verifying if JeM was involved in these blasts.