The Jammu and Kashmir Police has picked up two minors in Sopore town for allegedly hurling grenades at the security forces. The attack carried out by the two boys last week was caught on a CCTV camera which led to their identification and then detention.
The footage shows two boys, aged 12 and 13 years, pushing a handcart and later taking cover while throwing a grenade at a police post and then escaping into a narrow lane. Three people were injured in the blast.
The names of the boys have been withheld and they were only detained since the two are minors.
Sources said, soon after the attack the police obtained the CCTV footage on the basis of which sketches were made and the boys were identified
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Police believes that there was one more young man involved in the attack and are trying to find him as well.
Sources said the Lashkar-e-Tayyeba is banking on children now to carry out attacks on security forces. The children, according to the sources, are being paid just a few thousand rupees to carry out such acts.
n Two minors caught in action on CCTV cam
Inspector general of police of Kashmir S.M. Sahai admitted that minors are being used to carry out militant activities in the state. “The militants are outsourcing grenade attacks to teenageers who are not on our radar. It takes some time but we do get to them,” Mr Sahai said, adding, a seven-member module of LeT, busted in Sopore, points in this direction.