Jammu: In a major breakthrough, the city police arrested prime suspect of the Jammu bus stand grenade attack, Jammu and Kashmir DGP Dilbagh Singh said.

Early this morning, a grenade was hurled at the Jammu Bus stand which left over 32 injured. A 17-year-old boy, a native of Uttarakhand succumbed to his injuries while 2 were injured in the grenade attack.

J&K Police’s Manish K Sinha on explosion at Jammu bus-stand: Teams were constituted to work on leads, CCTV camera footage examined, based on oral testimony of witnesses we were able to identify a suspect. He was detained, his name is Yasir Bhatt, he has confessed to the crime. pic.twitter.com/jfpmCtHwaE

— ANI (@ANI) March 7, 2019

“Sad to inform that Md Sharik s/o Intijar R/o Toda, Kalyanpur, Ahatmal, Haridwar, Uttarakhand, age 17 y succumbed to the injuries that he suffered in the grenade blast at Jammu Bus Stand on 7.3.19,” tweeted Inspector General of Police, Jammu.

This is the third grenade attack by terrorists in Jammu bus stand since May last year, viewed by security agencies as an attempt to disturb communal harmony and peace in the city.

Eyewitness account of grenade attack

Earlier in the day, Inspector General of Police, Jammu, MK Sinha told media, “It was a grenade explosion; it has caused injuries to approximately 18 people and all were shifted to the hospital”.

“Seems like the grenade has been launched from outside. It possibly had rolled beneath a bus injuring many people”, he had added.

One of the eyewitnesses, Prince Sharma told newsmen, “I had just parked my bike when I heard a loud sound. I went to the spot of the explosion and saw about a dozen people were badly injured.”

It comes a week after the Indian Air Force (IAF) carried out air strikes on the terror camp of Jaish-e Mohammad (JeM) in Pakistan’s Balakot. The JeM took the responsibility for the February 14 Pulwama attack, which killed 40 CRPF personnel.

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