Twenty-one people, including a policeman, were injured in a grenade explosion in Bejinehara in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag district, on Wednesday morning.
Militants had hurled the grenade on a passing security force vehicle in the main market at Bejibehara.
"The grenade missed the target and exploded on the Srinagar-Jammu national highway, resulting in injuries to 21 people, who were taken to sub-district hospital Bejibehara," said a police officer.
Bejibehara is Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed's hometown.
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