Militants carry out several grenade attacks across Valley; LeT militant killed in an encounter with security forces in Kupwara; Strike observed in Shopian town after alleged killing of youth
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    • According to reports, suspected militants carried out several grenade attacks across the valley on August 1, 2012, resulting in injuries to a policeman and damage to some vehicles. Suspected militants hurled a grenade on Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) in Channapora locality of Srinagar. In Nagri village of Kupwara, unidentified militants hurled a grenade at the residential house of village Sarpanch Muhammad Rustum Dar. In another incident in the town, suspected militants carried out a grenade attack in Iqbal Market on July 31, 2012, resulting in injuries to a policeman.1

    In another development, according to reports, Police claimed that a joint party of forces killed a commander of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) in a gunfight in frontier district of Kupwara. A police spokesman said the personnel of Special Operation Group (SOG) Handwara, 21 Rashtriya Rifles and 92 battalion CRPF cordoned off Doodipora village in Handwara and launched searches. The militant present inside a mud house fired upon the joint search party which retaliated, triggering an encounter in which the LeT commander Abu Hanzla was killed. 2

    In other developments, according to reports, amid complete strike, protests took place in Shopian town in South Kashmir after a civilian was allegedly killed by security forces in a local CRPF camp. However, police has termed the death as an accident. 3

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