Grenade attack at Jammu bus stop kills 1, injures 33; key suspect arrested

Written By DNA Web Team | Updated: Mar 07, 2019, 06:29 PM IST

A policeman stands guard at the site of a grenade blast in Jammu.

"It was a grenade explosion, all the injured have been shifted to a hospital," MK Sinha, IGP Jammu said.

Hours after the grenade attack at Jammu bus station in which 1 person is killed and 33 have been injured, the Jammu & Kashmir Police has arrested a suspect who is accused of throwing the grenade. The suspect has been identified as Yasir.

As per reports, a terrorist group in Kashmir has taken the responsibility for the attack and the police is interrogating 12 suspects in relation to the grenade attack. 

Hitting out at the government, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi said, "any terrorist incident has to be condemned, but what lessons have our government has learned after Pulwama ... Why is it that the intelligence system is failing ... this is also an intelligence failure, government failure ... high time to wake up ... the government is also responsible ... the government should tell that these are the people who can be held responsible."

Earlier on February 13, around 12 students were seriously injured in a blast at a school in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir. The blast had occurred in a school at Narbal in the district.

(With inputs from agencies)