Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 22: Militants tonight lobbed a grenade on Flying Squad of police at village Kalai, about 10 kilometers from Poonch but it didn’t explode resulting into narrow escape of police personnel sitting inside the vehicle.
SSP Poonch Ramesh Angral told the Excelsior that the militants threw grenade on the police Flying Squad at around 8.30 pm at Kalai on Poonch-Surankote road.
The grenade fell hit the vehicle and fell on roadside but didn’t explode.
The police personnel conducting patrolling in the vehicle had a narrow escape.
Immediately after the grenade attack, security forces and police cordoned off entire area and launched search operation for the militants responsible for throwing the grenade. However, no arrests have been made so far.
This was after a long time that a militancy-related incident has occurred in the border district of Poonch.
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