Militants hurl grenades at police station, mobile tower in J-K

No one was injured in the attack, said officials. Mukhtar Ahmad/Rediff.com reports

Violence once again struck Kashmir after militants lobbed powerful hand grenade at a police station and two mobile towers in Handwara, in north Kashmir.

However, no one was injured in the three explosions, which triggered panic amongst the residents.

A senior police official said militants hurled the grenade at the heavily guarded police station.. The grenade, he said exploded without causing any damage. Militants hurled two more grenades at two mobile towers in the town.

Earlier in the evening, Jammu and Kashmir police said the terror outfit Hizbul Mujhahideen was behind the recent string of attacks on mobile service providers in the Valley.

Director General of Police K Rajendra Kumar, on the sidelines of a sports tournament here, told reporters that the banned terror outfit was behind the spate of attacks that left two persons dead.

Suspected militants on Monday had shot dead an employee of a BSNL franchisee and injured two others in Sopore town.

The father of a sarpanch, who had a mobile transmission tower installed inside his residential compound, was on Tuesday shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Sopore town.