Five Central Reserve Police Force troopers and two suicide attackers were among seven killed were wounded in afidayeen attack in the Bemina locality of the Srinagar on Wednesday morning.
Among the nine injured seven were CRPF troopers and two civilians. All the injured have been evacuated to hospital for treatment.
A senior police officer said two militants attacked a CRPF patrol at Bemina near a public school on Wednesday morning lobbing grenades and firing from automatic weapons.
Senior policemen and paramilitary CRPF officers rushed to the spot along with reinforcements and the area was immediately surrounded. The CRPF and police retaliated and engaged the militants in a gunfight near a school during which the two suicide attackers were killed, said the police official.
However, the Police Public School was closed due to strike called by separatists in support of their demand for return of mortal remains of Parliament attack convict Mohammad Afzal Guru.
Inspector General of Police (Kashmir) Abdul Gani Mir aid the group affiliation and identity of the militants killed in the incident was a matter of investigation.
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said four to five CRPF jawans were injured in the attack.
“Besides three civilians were also injured — they had splinter injuries and they have been hospitalised,” he said, replying to the issue raised by members Balwant Singh Mankotia and Irfan Shah in the Legislative Assembly.
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