SRINAGAR: Three Congress candidates contesting elections from Srinagar district of J&K narrowly escaped a grenade attack on Tuesday. Militants lobbed a grenade at the party office around 2.50 pm which fell near the fence injuring a security personnel, sources said.

Ghulam Mohammad Sheikh, Nazir Ahmad Peer and Abdul Gani Khan, who are contesting the elections from Batmaloo, Hazratbal and Eidgah respectively, were holding meetings with their supporters in the office when the attack took place, sources said adding that they escaped unhurt. This is the second grenade attack on Congress headquarters since August 2, the day the schedule for the assembly polls was announced. No one was injured in the earlier attack. Bureau Report