Srinagar: A civilian was killed and over a dozen others injured on Monday when terrorists hurled a grenade at the busy Amira Kadal near city centre Lal Chowk here in Kashmir Valley.
A police official said that terrorists hurled the grenade at the market area a week after 15 civilians were injured in a similar type of terror attack in Sopore town of north Kashmir.
This fresh attack came on a day when normal life had started to get back to normal after a hiatus of nearly three months following the abrogation of Article 370 on August 6 which resulted in creation of two Union Territories of J&K and Ladakh.
The police official said that all the injured were immediately shifted to hospital for treatment where the condition of one of the injured is serious.
However, immediately after the incident, the area was cordoned off by the security forces and an intensive search operation was launched to nab or neutralise the culprits.