Srinagar: Separatists attacked the house of Education Minister Naeem Akhtar with two petrol bombs, shaking the calm but tense Kashmir Valley largely bound in continuous curfew and separatist-called shutdown, police said on Tuesday.
The attack on the minister’s house here took place late on Monday but no one was hurt, police said. The attack took place in the upscale neighbourhood of Parray Pora. One of the bombs exploded in the compound, causing minor damage to a window. The other hit the outer wall of the house. “The bombs exploded without causing any damage, one in the lawn and the other outside the compound wall,” a police officer said. The minister is at present living in a government accommodation in the high security Gupkar Road in Srinagar. It was the second attack on Akhtar.
Earlier, on Saturday he had a narrow escape when his car convoy was assaulted with stones near a village in north Kashmir where he had gone to take stock of the security situation.On Tuesday, according to police, there were no violent clashes reported from anywhere in the valley.
