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16 BJP workers hurt in hand-grenade attack in Doda

Mukhtar Ahmad in Srinagar

Sixteen Bharatiya Janata Party workers were wounded when militants lobbed a powerful hand-grenade at their campaign vehicle in the Doda main marketplace.

The police said the condition of three BJP workers was critical, and they have been shifted to hospital.

The militants lobbed the grenade on the campaign vehicle, a Tata Sumo, and managed to escape. The police and security forces who were rushed to the spot immediately, cordoned off the entire area.

Today is the last day of campaigning in Doda where BJP candidate Chaman Lal Gupta has an edge over his rival National Conference candidate . Doda goes to polls on Saturday in the second phase.

After this incident security has been further beefed up in the entire district. The police said the poll staff has been imparted necessary training. The chief secretary and the state police chief reviewed the situation in the district with senior officers.

Only two days previously the militants detonated a landmine at Thajwar village in Anantnag district, killing the BJP candidate Ghulam Hyder Noorani.

In another incident, two NSG commandos were killed when militants ambushed a joint search party of the Delhi Police and the NSG at Nowgam Banihal in Doda district late yesterday. The NSG shot dead a militant and recovered arms and ammunition.

The two NSG commandos who were killed have been identified as Subhash Chander and Roshan Lal.

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