Twenty-one civilians were injured on Monday when alleged Mujahideen hurled a grenade at a occupation security force patrol in a busy market in Indian occupied Kashmir, which missed, police said. Five of those injured in the attack at Shopian, 50 kilometres (30 miles) south of the summer capital Srinagar, were in critical condition, police said.
"The rebels were aiming for a security patrol but missed their target," a police official, who did not wish to be named, told AFP. "The market was packed with people when the grenade went off."
No militant group has claimed responsibility for the attack, which sent people scattering in panic, police said.
On Sunday three people were injured in a shootout between an alleged mujahid and police in a crowded flea market in occupied Srinagar.
There has been no lull in violence in Indian occupied Kashmir despite peace moves by nuclear-armed India and Pakistan to settle their bitter dispute over the territory.
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