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Mukhtar Ahmad in Srinagar
Fourteen people were injured, one of them seriously, in a grenade blast in a crowded market in Anantnag district of South Kashmir on Wednesday.
Militants lobbed the grenade at a security patrol at Janglat Mandi in Anantnag town at 1100 IST, but it missed the personnel and exploded on the road wounding 14 pedestrians, officials said.
The wounded have been admitted to a hospital in Anantnag.
Police and paramilitary forces cordoned off the area around the scene of the explosion and have launched a hunt for the militants.
No militant outfit has claimed responsibility for the blast so far.
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