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Seven injured in grenade attack near Srinagar's Lal Chowk 

The grenade exploded on a roadside in the market, injuring five people, police said, adding that the wounded were rushed to a hospital here.

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SRINAGAR: Seven people were injured in a grenade attack by suspected militants in a market area in Jammu and Kashmir's summer capital Srinagar on Saturday, police said.

Militants hurled a grenade in Hari Singh High Street market area, a few hundred metres from the city centre Lal Chowk, this afternoon, a police official said.

The grenade exploded on a roadside in the market, injuring seven people, he said, adding that the wounded were rushed to a hospital here.

According to the official, the explosion also damaged windows of a vehicle parked nearby.

He said the shops in the market were shut but a few vendors had set up stalls in the area.

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