In a novel attack of its kind, a mosque was attacked in Shopian today with a grenade explosion in which 11 people were injured.
Police officials said that 11 people were injured in a grenade explosion when they came out of the Jamia Trenz mosque in Shopian after offering morning prayers.
“The Nimazis discovered an inverted metallic tumbler in the mosque compound. When one of them tried to turn the tumbler straight, the grenade kept under it exploded," a senior police official said.
Meanwhile, Hizb supremo Syed Salahuddin has condemned that attack and said attacking a mosque was the handiwork of Indian agencies.Click Here To Follow Our WhatsApp Channel‘Throbbing grenade on Nimazis is the work of Indian agencies,” he said in an emailed statement issued to KNS.
He said the Indian forced are frightened because of increased militant attacks and “that is why they are making innocent civilians as their targets”.
He also said that RDX material kept in the house of one Abdul Rashid Malla of Shopian was also the handiwork of army and condemned that.