Srinagar, India (CNN) -- Nine policemen were injured, five of them critically, in a booby trap blast Wednesday outside a heavily guarded police station in Sopore, authorities said.
In what appears to a planned attack on the police, militants first fired a rifle grenade at the police station, which exploded behind the building without causing any damage, officials said. As the officers rushed out of the station to inspect the blast site, militants set off a pre-planted improvised explosive device (IED) in a nearby vehicle, wounding several policemen, Sopore police chief Altaf Khan told CNN.
Khan said the five critically injured police officers were taken to Srinagar for specialized treatment.
The attack in Sopore, which lies north of the capital Srinagar in Indian-administered Kashmir, comes just as the area was beginning to see an increase in the number of tourists visiting the valley. That number had dropped dramatically last year due to fierce gunfights between Indian security forces and militants, a deadly summer of unrest that claimed 112 lives and left hundreds others wounded. The fighting also crippled the region's key tourism industry.
to me this is good because with this atack that group stop and the violence or the terorism that make that group stop and can help allot of life
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