Srinagar, May 04: Militants tonight attacked a CRPF camp hurling a grenade on it and setting off a gunbattle with the securitymen at Mattan Chawk locality of Anantanag town, hours before polling in Anantnag Lok Sabha constituency where ruling PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti is in fray. The ultras hurled the grenade on the CRPF camp at Mattan Chawk locality of Anantnag town which was followed by a gunbttle that raged late into the evening, official sources here said.

But there was no immediate report of any casualty in the attack or the gunbattle, they said.

The army detected an ied planted in a school at Qazigund locality of Anantnag, which was converted into a polling booth, at around 9 pm.

The IED was taken out and defused, the sources said.


Bureau Report