Srinagar, June 27: Twenty-two people, including two Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel, were injured when some unidentified militants triggered a grenade blast in Anantnag district of south Kashmir today, official sources said. The grenade was lobbed at the crowded Lal Chowk area of the town around 11 am which injured 20 civilians and two CRPF personnel and sparked off panic among the people there, the sources said. Police assisted by security forces immediately cordoned off the entire area and rushed the injured to hospital, where condition of five of them was stated to be "serious", they said. A hunt was on to nab those responsible for the blast.

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