Militants today targeted worshippers of a mosque in north Kashmir by placing a grenade outside the shrine, which exploded, injuring 10 people, police said.
In the development that could be a new trend, militants had planted the grenade outside the mosque in Trenz locality of Shopian, 52 kms from here, in the wee hours.
"The grenade was kept on roadside in a steel glass after removing its pin. Someone touched it, triggering the blast," a police official said.
He said 10 civilians who had come out of the mosque after morning prayers were injured in the explosion.
While four of the injured were referred to a hospital in Srinagar for treatment, six others were admitted to a hospital in Shopian, he said, adding all the injured were in a stable condition.
In a similar incident, police detected a hand grenade kept in a steel glass, with its pin removed, near the house of an active Hizbul Mujahideen militant Wasim Malla at Pehlipora in Shopian.
"A bomb disposal squad was rushed to the spot and the grenade was destroyed on the spot without causing any loss," he added.
