Militant strike injures two girls in Baramulla

Two girls aged seven and 16 were wounded in a militant strike in north Kashmir's Baramulla district late on Tuesday evening.

A senior police officer said militants fired a burst of automatic fire inside the house of one Akbar Akhoon through a window, wounding his 16-year-old daughter Shaista and 8-year-old grand daughter Moomina.

The injured were immediately shifted to hospital for treatment.

Police has reached the spot.

Earlier militants tossed a grenade at a bunker of the paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force in Sopore town.

The grenade, however, failed to explode and was defused later by the bomb disposal squad, according to a police spokesman.