Srinagar, Feb 15: As many as seventeen people, including 14 soldiers were injured when militants detonated a powerful improvised explosive device (IED) at Qazigund on the Srinagar-Jammu National Highway today. The IED which was kept in a hand-cart near Qazigund Bazar in Anantnag district went off when a convoy of the security forces on its way from Jammu to Srinagar hit it, injuring the 14 security personnel and three civilians, an official spokesman said.

The vehicle carrying security force personnel was also damaged in the blast, he said.

He said that the area has been cordoned off and a search operation being launched to nab the militants.

No militant outfit has so for claimed responsibility for the blast.

Bureau Report