Jammu, Mar 8 2019: The death toll in yesterday's grenade blast at Jammu bus stand mounted to two on Friday after a Kashmir resident succumbed at a hospital. A 32-year-old Mohd Riyaz, a resident of Mattan area of Islamabad (Anantnag) district, who was injured in the blast at the General bus stand, succumbed at a hospital early Friday , said an official.
A 17-year-old youthMohammad Sharik, son of Intezar, a resident of Indian state Uttarakhand was killed in the blast on Thursday, with 33 others injured.
Government Medical College (GMC), Jammu, Principal, Dr Sunanda Raina told the media men that 34 blast victims were admitted in the hospital. Of them, she said, Mohammad Sharik, 17, son of Intezar, a resident of Uttarakhand, succumbed to his injuries. Sharik was a tailor working at Khanabal, south Kashmir and was returning there after visiting his hometown in India Uttarakhand, Mushtaq Ahmed 40/M S/o Abdul Qadil Qazigund,Tariq Ahmed Bhat 44/M Qazigund, Shabir Ahmed 44/M Qazigund.
Sources said majority of the injured were travelers while some of them were shopkeepers and rehriwallahs in the vicinity of the area. Some vehicles parked in the area suffered damage after being hit by splinters of the grenade.
Shopkeepers and other people of Bus Stand extended help to police and medical teams in evacuating the injured to the GMC Jammu. Some of the injured were shifted to hospital in private vehicles.
“The blast occurred on the roadside when there was huge rush of people. I had come to drop my wife who was going to board a bus to Punjab,” one of the injured, Kuldeep Singh of Pargwal area in Akhnoor tehsil of Jammu district said. Singh, who is undergoing treatment along with his wife at Government Medical College hospital Jammu for injuries, said he felt that somebody hurled something which caused the powerful explosion.