Indian-run Kashmir: grenade attack wounds 9 at Sunday market

Indian-run Kashmir’s chief minister on Sunday condemned a “deeply disturbing” grenade attack on a busy market in the main city of Srinagar, which police and media reported left several wounded.

“A grenade attack on innocent shoppers at the ‘Sunday market’ in Srinagar is deeply disturbing,” Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah said in a statement.

“There can be no justification for targeting innocent civilians”.

Abdullah did not say how many were wounded, but a senior police officer, who was not authorised to speak to journalists, said nine people were wounded, all civilians.

The Press Trust of India (PTI) showed dozens of armed police and soldiers cordoning off the area in the Himalayan city.

Tasneem Showkat, a doctor at Srinagar’s SMHS Hospital, was quoted as saying at least eight injured had been taken for treatment.

“The injured include eight men and one woman,” Showkat said. “All are so far stable”.