31 August,2009 03:06 PM IST | | PTI
Two CRPF personnel were killed and eight people injured in twin-attacks by militants in the crowded Lal Chowk and Batmaloo areas of the city, barely half a km from the Assembly on Monday afternoon.
Armed with guns and grenades, the militants struck almost simultaneously at around 1 pm when the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly went for a recess after completing the morning session, officials said.
Militants shot two CRPF jawans of 28th battalion in the head from point blank range outside a bank at Lal Chowk, Srinagar's nerve centre, sparking panic in the city.
A few minutes later, militants lobbed a grenade on a CRPF patrol party outside Fire and Emergency Services headquarters at Batmaloo causing injuries to eight persons including three jawans, they said.
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The firing at Lal Chowk and the grenade attack at Batmaloo, nearly a kilometer apart, came at a time when security has been beefed up in the area in view of the ongoing session of the Assembly whose building is located along the Lal Chowk-Batmaloo route, along with civil Secretariat and Jammu and Kashmir High Court.
The attacks came exactly a month after a double-strike by militants in the area. On August 1, militants shot dead a policeman and injured two CRPF personnel at Batmaloo and Regal Chowk. One of the CRPF jawans succumbed to injuries after battling for life for 10 days.
