At least 11 pilgrims were injured, three of them critically, in a granade blast on Saturday in Poonch district in Jammu and Kashmir, police said.

A senior police officer told IANS that "11 yatris of Baba Budha Amarnath Yatra were injured near the shrine, when three men hurled a granade."

He said, "two suspects were nabbed while they were escaping in a vehicle, but a third suspect was still at the large".

All the injured have been shifted to a hospital.

--IANS

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First Published: Aug 13 2016 | 10:36 PM IST

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