{"id":310234,"date":"2019-03-08T05:14:16","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T05:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=310234"},"modified":"2019-03-08T05:14:16","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T05:14:16","slug":"death-toll-in-jammu-grenade-attack-rises-to-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/death-toll-in-jammu-grenade-attack-rises-to-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Death Toll in Jammu grenade attack rises to 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-310220 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/attack-300x239.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"439\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/attack-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/attack-527x420.jpg 527w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/attack.jpg 537w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 439px) 100vw, 439px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The death toll in the Jammu bus stand grenade attack increased to two on Friday, police said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Muhammad Riyaz who was injured in Thursday&#8217;s Jammu grenade attack succumbed to his wounds in a hospital on early Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">17-year-old Mohammad Sharik, a resident of Haridwar in Uttarakhand, who police said succumbed to splinter injuries, was reported soon after the blast.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Yasir Bhatt, a resident of Kulgam in Kashmir was tasked by the Hizbul Mujahideen to throw the grenade at a bus stand in Jammu.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He had confessed of carrying out the attack and was arrested by police on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">At least 30 people were injured in the explosion &#8212; the third at the bus stand since May last year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The police were immediately rushed to the blast site with sniffer dogs and forensic experts and launched a search operation.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death toll in the Jammu bus stand grenade attack increased to two on Friday, police said. Muhammad Riyaz who was injured in Thursday&#8217;s Jammu grenade attack succumbed to his wounds in a hospital on early Friday. 17-year-old Mohammad Sharik, a resident of Haridwar in Uttarakhand, who police said succumbed to splinter injuries, was reported [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":310220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2016,2009,2014],"tags":[11055,1223],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310236,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310234\/revisions\/310236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/310220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}