Two injured in indiscriminate firing by gunmen in north Kashmir

Monday, April 24, 2006, 18:33 [IST]

Pattan, Baramulla, Apr 24 (UNI) Two persons were injured when a group of gunmen, travelling in a car, resorted to indiscriminate firing at the main market near here, during polling.

Eyewitnesses told a visiting UNI correspondent that a group of gunmen in a car fired indiscriminately, injuring two persons. The injured were hospitalised.

Later, security forces and State Task Force (SRF) personnel chased the car, proceeding towards Srinagar. The identity of the assailants was however, not immediately known.

Traffic on the road was suspended and reinforcements rushed from nearby camps.

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